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In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved Puss in Boots, and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city. With innovative literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in social history of the Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language.

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Bible stories --- Children's literature --- Children --- #BIBC:ruil --- 094:22 --- 094:242 --- 268.714 --- 268.714 Bijbelse geschiedenissen. Schoolbijbels --- Bijbelse geschiedenissen. Schoolbijbels --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Juvenile literature --- Literature --- 094:242 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Meditatie. Contemplatie --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Meditatie. Contemplatie --- 094:22 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Bijbel --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Bijbel --- Illustrations&delete& --- History --- Books and reading&delete& --- Book history --- Bible --- Comparative literature --- Illustrations --- Books and reading

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Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.

Fairy tales in literature. --- Fairy tales --- History and criticism.

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Gender and Story in South India presents exciting ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book is unique for its geographic and linguistic focus on South India, for its inclusion of urban and rural locales of narration, and for its exploration of shared Hindu and Muslim female space. Drawing on the worldviews of South Indian female narrators in both everyday and performative settings, the contributors lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women's material and spiritual lives. Book jacket

Gender identity in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Folk literature, Indian --- Tales --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Indian folk literature --- Indian literature --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism