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Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine visionary interprets the relationship between orality and writing, authorship and audience, sexual identity and language.

Pazzi, de, Maria Magdalena --- De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, --- De' Pazzi, Caterina, --- De' Pazzi, Mary Magdalene, --- De Pazzis, Maria Magdalena, --- Dei Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, --- Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, --- Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, --- María Magdalena de Pazzis, --- Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi, --- Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, --- Pazzi, Caterina de', --- Pazzi, Maria Maddalena de', --- Pazzi, Mary Magdalene de', --- Pazzis, María Magdalena de, --- De Pazzi, María Magdalena, --- Women Saints --- Renaissance --- Italy --- Biography & Autobiography --- History --- Women saints --- Biography & autobiography

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Demonology --- History of doctrines.

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Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous-in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises. If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales-as Armando Maggi thinks we should-we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers' adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.

Fairy tales --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Basile, Giambattista, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- basile, fairy tale, folklore, tradition, narrative, literature, magic, mythology, myth, grimm brothers, adaptation, france, italy, germany, cupid and psyche, king cardiddu, orpheus, romanticism, brentano, beauty, marvel, postmodernism, disney, beasts of the southern wild, nonfiction, apuleius, robert coover, memoir, trauma, archetype, film, popular culture, history.

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Mysticism --- Catholic Church