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Informationen zum Autor Vito Carrassi is a writer and translator who teaches folklore at the University of Bari. His main fields of research are literary anthropology, narratology, Irish and Italian folklore. Klappentext Through an original analysis of its structure and dynamics, the fairy tale ceases to be one of the many genres of fantastic narrative and rises to become a category, a universal modality both of the storytelling and of a world vision. The objective is to render the fairy tale a sort of emblematic location, where the study of narrative texts integrates itself with the socio-historical contexts of the Irish tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Narrativity, between Orality and Writing 2.The Fairy tale: Reformulation of a Concept Notes Chapter 1. A Celtic Legacy and Christian Syncretism1. A Methodological Introduction2. The Celtic Heredity 3. The Christian Appropriation of Celtic Tradition Notes Chapter 2. The Precursors of Yeats in the Recuperation of the Narrative Tradition1. TheRoyal Hibernian Tales 2. Thomas Crofton Croker and His Followers 3. Patrick Kennedy 4. Letitia McClintock, Lady Wilde, Douglas Hyde 5. The Literary Reception of the Written Gaelic Tradition Notes Chapter 3. A Rebirth in the Light of the Tradition 1. The National Question and Literary Rebirth2. Yeats, the Inspiration of the Irish Revival 3. The Distinguishing Characteristics of Yeats' Collections 4. The Fairy Tale according to Stephens Notes, Chapter 4. The Fairy Talebetween fabula and historia 1. The Space-Time Coordinates of the Fairy Tale 2. The Dynamic Established by the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 5. The Process of Composition of the Fairy Tale 1. The Triangle Composed ofEtain, Midir and Eochaid and the Origin of the Fairy Tale 2. An Analysis of the Priomscel and the Structure of the Fairy Tale 3. Classification of the Functions and Characterization of the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 6. Plurality and Metanarrative in the Fairy Tale 1. Substructure and Metastructure 2. Deep Structure and Surface Structure 3. The Narrativity Produced by the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 7. The Significance of the Fairy Tale in the Historical and Cultural Context 1. An Indicative Metaphor 2. The Epiphanic and Pragmatic Components of the Fairy Tale 3. The Dialectic between Signifier and Signified Notes Chapter 8. Between the Fairy Taleand Tale 1. The Five Phases of the Fairy Tale 2. The Fairy Tale and the Pseudo-Fairy Tale 3. The Joycian Tale in the Light of the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 9. Narrative Construction and Re-Construction of the World 1. Paradigm and Syntagma, Fabula and Plot 2. An Essential Dialectic Notes Chapter 10. Beyond Ireland: a General Perspective1. Narrativity as a Quest for Meaning 2. A Model of Universal Significance Notes Select Bibliography ...
