Cycles of Influence
Fiction, Folktale, Theory
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2003
312 pages
978-0-8143-3909-1 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Tales in Theory: The Role of the Folktale in the Development of Narratology
- 2. Theory in Tales: Cycles, Levels, and Frames
- 3. The Idea of the Folktale in Italo Calvino
- Italian Folktales: Text and Contexts
- First Idea: Tradition and Ideology
- Second Idea: Singular Fantasies
- Third Idea: A "Geometry of Story-Telling"
- 4. Narrative Turns
- John Barth, Author of the Arabian Nights
- "Familiarity Breeds Consent": Robert Coover and the Fairy Tale
- 5. Craftiness and Cruelty: A Reading of the Fairy Tale and Its Place in Recent Feminist Fictions
- "Curiosity . . . Is Insubordination in Its Purest Form"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
