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"In Fairy-Tale Science Suzanne Magnanini explores the birth and evolution of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous. She demonstrates how both the normative literary theories of the Italian intellectual establishment and the emerging New Science limited the genre's success on its native soil. Natural philosophers, physicians, and clergymen positioned the fairy tale in opposition to science, fixing it as a negative pole in a binary system, one which came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by identifying their literary production with the monstrous and the feminine, Straparola and Basile contributed to the marginalization of the new genre." "A wide-ranging yet carefully crafted study, Fairy-Tale Science investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and an emerging literary genre, and expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination."--Jacket.

Monsters --- Fairy tales --- Literature and science --- Monsters in literature. --- Italian fiction --- Monstres --- Contes de fées --- Littérature et sciences --- Monstres dans la littérature --- Roman italien --- Folklore. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Folklore --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, ca. 1480-1557? --- Basile, Giambattista, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, --- Freaks --- Monsters, Double --- Monstrosities --- Abbattutis, Gian Alesio, --- Basile, Giovanni Battista, --- באסילע, זשיאן באטיסטא --- באסילע, זשיאן באטיסטא, --- Straparola, Gian Francesco, --- Straparola, Giovan Francesco, --- Straparola, Giovanfrancesco, --- Straparola, Giovani Francesco, --- Straparole, J.-F. --- Straparole, Jean-François, --- Straparole, --- Italian literature --- Animals --- Curiosities and wonders --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- Abnormalities --- Basile, Giovan Battista, --- Thematology --- Basile, Giambattista --- Straparole, Jean François --- Italy. --- Italia --- Italian Republic --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii͡ --- Italii͡a Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliy --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia --- Repubblica italiana --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Italy

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How have the fairy tales of different cultures changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about our fears and hopes?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by over 50 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate broad trends and nuances of the fairy tale in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.

Fairy tales --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- History of civilization --- Ancient history --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999