European fairy tale – sources If you wish to get an idea of the most representative fairy tale for each European nation click on the image below° you will get on tale per country, in summary form and in full: I have put together a list of English translations for fairy tales coming from various Read More …
Gianbatista Basile – Il Pentamerone Giovanni Battista Basile (1566-1632) A short evocation of Basile: Lo cunto de li cunti / The Tale of Tales / Il Pentamerone Published between 1634-6,… …is a collection of fairy tales in Neapoletan dialect (which is very different from Italian…). It was a small-size bookelet: …with decorative chapter pages: Source Read More …
Seminar Read the following short texts. Then in class we will be answering the questions: a. Angela Carter – “The Werewolf” This is Angela Carter’s short story ‘The Werewolf”, which is a (post)modernist rewriting of an old fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Cap” a.k.a. “Rotkäpchen” or “Petit chaperon rouge”. I invite you to read now Read More …
This is a list of the past theses in Metafictional theses supervised by Dr. Adrian Oțoiu. Check the other lists of theses on Fantasy, on Animal Tales, on Minority. and on Crossover. Year Student Title Link 2011 Margareta Balogh Fairy Tales in the Works of Romantic Composers 2011 Antonia Iancău Psychological Perspectives on The Twelve Read More …