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Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales

Zipes, Jack
Crane, Thomas

Hardcover

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 157607272X
ISBN13: 9781576072721
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Dec 5 2001
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.06
Language: English

An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis.

For 19th-century folklorist Thomas Crane, the value of collecting, translating, and reproducing folktales lay in their internationalism--their capacity to reveal how the customs of a particular group, no matter how unique, are linked to many others.

In his classic collection, edited and updated by contemporary folklorist Jack Zipes, Crane traces the roots of Italian folktales to their origins, often in the Orient, then shows how they diffused in unpredictable and marvelous ways throughout Italy and over the centuries. A contemporary of the brothers Grimm, Crane offers a richer, more complex selection of oral and literary tales. Unlike the Grimms, he doesn't edit or modify the tales, which deal openly with surprisingly contemporary subjects: murder, adultery, incest, child abuse, and brutal vengeance.

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