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Informationen zum Autor By Vito Carrassi - Translated by Kevin Wren 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 CONTENTSAcknowledgments Introduction1. Narrativity, between Orality and Writing2.The Fairy tale: Reformulation of a ConceptNotes Chapter 1. A Celtic Legacy and Christian Syncretism1. A Methodological Introduction2. The Celtic Heredity3. The Christian Appropriation of Celtic TraditionNotes Chapter 2. The Precursors of Yeats in the Recuperation of the Narrative Tradition1. The Royal Hibernian Tales2. Thomas Crofton Croker and His Followers3. Patrick Kennedy4. Letitia McClintock, Lady Wilde, Douglas Hyde5. The Literary Reception of the Written Gaelic TraditionNotes Chapter 3. A Rebirth in the Light of the Tradition1. The National Question and Literary Rebirth2. Yeats, the Inspiration of the Irish Revival3. The Distinguishing Characteristics of Yeats' Collections4. The Fairy Tale according to StephensNotes, Chapter 4. The Fairy Tale between fabula and historia1. The Space-Time Coordinates of the Fairy Tale2. The Dynamic Established by the Fairy TaleNotes Chapter 5. The Process of Composition of the Fairy Tale1. The Triangle Composed of Etain, Midir and Eochaid and the Origin of the Fairy Tale2. An Analysis of the Priomscel and the Structure of the Fairy Tale3. Classification of the Functions and Characterization of the Fairy TaleNotes Chapter 6. Plurality and Metanarrative in the Fairy Tale1. Substructure and Metastructure2. Deep Structure and Surface Structure3. The Narrativity Produced by the Fairy Tale Notes Chapter 7. The Significance of the Fairy Tale in the Historical and Cultural Context1. An Indicative Metaphor2. The Epiphanic and Pragmatic Components of the Fairy Tale3. The Dialectic between Signifier and SignifiedNotes Chapter 8. Between the Fairy Tale and Tale1. The Five Phases of the Fairy Tale2. The Fairy Tale and the Pseudo-Fairy Tale3. The Joycian Tale in the Light of the Fairy TaleNotes Chapter 9. Narrative Construction and Re-Construction of the World 1. Paradigm and Syntagma, Fabula and Plot2. An Essential DialecticNotes Chapter 10. Beyond Ireland: a General Perspective1. Narrativity as a Quest for Meaning2. A Model of Universal SignificanceNotes Select Bibliography...
