From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy TaleFrom Court to Forest is a critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. |
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Antuono appear authors Bakhtin Baroque Basile Basile's beauty become bella canonical carnival carnivalesque characters chillo chiu classical collection comm'a conventional Corvetto cossi court courtiers courtly critical Croce cunti cunto daughter Decameron dialect eclogues enchanted example fairy-tale fatto figure Filadoro finally folkloric folktale fool forest frame story frame tale function genre Giambattista Giambattista Basile grotesque heroes heroine human ianca Italian Italy Jack Zipes king king's kingdom kingdom of Naples language Liithi literary fairy tale literary tradition literature Lo cunto magic magical helpers marvelous metaphor moral Moreover mother motif Naples Napoli gentile Nardiello narrative Neapolitan novella objects ogre ogress oral Oziosi Pentamerone Peruonto Petrarchan poetics popular culture preamble prince Propp protagonists quale quanno reality reference Renaissance rhetorical role Sapia Saporita sempre seventeenth century sixteenth social sort story stylistic Tadeo telling thematic theme trans transformed tutte virtue vocca Zipes Zoza Zoza's