Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Europea Fairy Tale Tradition

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2002
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Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola. -Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

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"Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola."-Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 16 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0812236807
ISBN 13: 9780812236804