Logica della fiaba: Fate, orchi, gioco, corte, fortuna, viaggio, capriccio, metamorfosi, Corpo.
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Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 |
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Full Article Title: Logica della fiaba: Fate, orchi, gioco, corte, fortuna, viaggio, capriccio, metamorfosi, Corpo.(Book review) |
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Logica della fiaba: Fate, orchi, gioco, corte, fortuna, viaggio, capriccio, metamorfosi, corpo. By Michele Rak. Milan: Mondadori, 2005. 317 pp.
Over the last few decades Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales, 1634-1636) has begun to attract the scholarly attention it so richly deserves. Both in and outside of Italy there have appeared critical editions, translations, articles, and conferences dedicated to the work that more than any other initiated the genre of the literary fairy tale in Europe. What is still lacking, however, is a substantial corpus of critical monographs on Lo cunto, of which there are just a handful.
Logica della fiaba, Michele Rak's ambitious study of Lo cunto, is thus most welcome, and its insights on Basile's place in the history of the fairy tale, in Baroque culture, and in the development of literary genres address fundamental aspects of the text that are all too rarely considered on the same page. Rak is indeed a scholar made to order for such a necessarily wide-ranging consideration of Lo cunto. Throughout his academic career (he currently...
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