Italian Popular Tales

An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane''s original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis. For 19th-century folklorist Thomas Crane, the value of collecting, translating, and reproducing folktales lay in their "internationalism"-their capacity to reveal how the customs of a particular group, no matter how unique, are linked to many others.In his classic collection, edited and updated by contemporary folklorist Jack Zipes, Crane traces the roots of Italian folktales to their origins, often in the Orient, then shows how they diffused in unpredictable and marvelous ways throughout Italy and over the centuries. A contemporary of the brothers Grimm, Crane offers a richer, more complex selection of oral and literary tales. Unlike the Grimms, he doesn''t edit or modify the tales, which deal openly with surprisingly contemporary subjects: murder, adultery, incest, child abuse, and brutal vengeance.>

About the author

Thomas Frederick Crane

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Crane, Thomas Frederick Crane, Crane Thomas Frederick
• Assisted by: Jack Zipes (Editor), Zipes Jack (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2001
• EAN: 9781576072721
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-272-1
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Italy, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary essays, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Folklore studies / Study of myth