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Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)
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Overturns Traditional Views Of The Origins Of Fairy Tales And Documents Their Actual Origins And Transmission.Where Did Cinderella Come From? Puss In Boots? Rapunzel?The Origins Of Fairy Tales Are Looked At In A New Way In These Highly Engaging Pages. Conventional Wisdom Holds That Fairy Tales Originated In The Oral Traditions Of Peasants And Were Recorded For Posterity By The Brothers Grimm During The Nineteenth Century. Ruth B. Bottigheimer Overturns This View In A Lively Account Of The Origins Of These Wellloved Stories. Charles Perrault Created Cinderella And Her Fairy Godmother, But No Countrywoman Whispered This Tale Into Perraults Ear. Instead, His Cinderella Appeared Only After He Had Edited It From The Book Of Often Amoral Tales Published By Giambattista Basile In Naples. Distinguishing Fairy Tales From Folktales And Showing The Influence Of The Medieval Romance On Them, Bottigheimer Documents How Fairy Tales Originated As Urban Writing For Urban Readers And Listeners. Working Backward From The Grimms To The Earliest Known Sixteenthcentury Fairy Tales Of The Italian Renaissance, Bottigheimer Argues For A Bookbased History Of Fairy Tales. The First New Approach To Fairy Tale History In Decades, This Book Answers Questions About Where Fairy Tales Came From And How They Spread, Illuminating A Narrative Process Long Veiled By Surmise And Assumption.Bottingheimers Work Is As Always Provocative And Interesting. Journal Of American Folklorethe Genius Of This Slender Volume Is Not So Much That It Provides A Totally New History, But Rather That It Presents Not Only Bottigheimers Research But Also That Of John Ellis, Heinz Rlleke, Nancy Canepa, And Many Others In Cogent, Persuasive, Eminently Readable Prose A Fascinating Study In Intertextuality, This Book Includes A Helpful List Of The 77 Tales Discussed, Categorized By The Author. Choicesome Scholars Say That, Whether Or Not One Agrees With All Of Bottigheimers Conclusions, Her Work Is A Useful Questioning Of Popularly Held Beliefs. Chronicle Reviewthis Book Will Forever Change The Way That Scholars And Readers View A Genrethe Literary Fairy Talethat Remains Vital Today. Suzanne Magnanini, Author Of Fairytale Science: Monstrous Generation In The Tales Of Straparola And Basile
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