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- catalog abstract "In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, the author proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. He beings by examining the key features of folktales: their emphasis on a chain of events rather than description or consciousness, their emphasis on a self-contained fictional environment rather than realism, the presence of a storyteller as a self-confessed fabricator, their oral and communal status, and their ever-changing state, which defies authoritative versions.".
- catalog contributor b12801719.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "1. Tales in theory : the role of the folktale in the development of narratology -- 2. Theory in tales : cycles, levels, and frames -- -- 3. The idea of the folktale in Italo Calvino -- Italian folktales : texts and contexts -- First idea : tradition and ideology -- Second idea : singular fantasies -- Third idea : a "geometry of story-telling" -- -- 4. Narrative turns -- John Barth, author of the Arabian nights -- "Familiarity breeds consent": Robert Coover and the fairy tale -- -- 5. Craftiness and cruelty : a reading of the fairy tale and its place in recent feminist fictions -- "Curiosity ... is insubordination in its purest form."".
- catalog description "In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, the author proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. He beings by examining the key features of folktales: their emphasis on a chain of events rather than description or consciousness, their emphasis on a self-contained fictional environment rather than realism, the presence of a storyteller as a self-confessed fabricator, their oral and communal status, and their ever-changing state, which defies authoritative versions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and index.".
- catalog extent "314 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0814329497 (cloth : alk paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Detroit : Wayne State University Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.9113 21".
- catalog subject "Fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "GR41.3 .B46 2003".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Tales History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Tales in theory : the role of the folktale in the development of narratology -- 2. Theory in tales : cycles, levels, and frames -- -- 3. The idea of the folktale in Italo Calvino -- Italian folktales : texts and contexts -- First idea : tradition and ideology -- Second idea : singular fantasies -- Third idea : a "geometry of story-telling" -- -- 4. Narrative turns -- John Barth, author of the Arabian nights -- "Familiarity breeds consent": Robert Coover and the fairy tale -- -- 5. Craftiness and cruelty : a reading of the fairy tale and its place in recent feminist fictions -- "Curiosity ... is insubordination in its purest form."".
- catalog title "Cycles of influence : fiction, folktale, theory / Stephen Benson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".