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Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Emma Perodi
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726983036
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 707

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Quarantacinque sono le novelle fantastiche che nonna Marcucci racconta alla sua numerosa famiglia. Tutti e venticinque i componenti si riuniscono attorno al fuoco ogni giorno di festa per ascoltare le avvincenti vicende della matriarca, scandite dai cicli stagionali del lavoro nei campi del Casentino. Ciascuna storia si addentra in una dimensione profondamente verista e, al contempo, magica e spettrale, in cui a fare da protagonista è il territorio. Questo libro è un viaggio indimenticabile fatto di contrasti che vedono un alternarsi di personaggi fiabeschi, come nani e incantatrici, a figure tipiche della tradizione cristiana, come santi e protettori. Emma Perodi (1850-1918) è stata un'importante giornalista e scrittrice italiana. La Perodi è nota principalmente per il contributo che ha dato alla letteratura per l’infanzia: molto celebre è la sua collaborazione con il periodico "Giornale per i bambini", che ha diretto per un periodo in seguito a Carlo Collodi. La produzione giornalistica e letteraria di Emma Perodi si fa pioniera di una narrativa che si apre a tematiche di risonanza globale. L'apice di questo approccio viene raggiunto qualche anno dopo da "Cuore" di Edmondo De Amicis, i cui elementi chiave sono però già chiaramente riconoscibili nelle "Novelle della nonna", l'opera principale di Emma Perodi.

Author: Emma Perodi
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ISBN: 9781980536093
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Languages : it
Pages : 345

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Le novelle della nonna by Emma Perodi

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Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069122465X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales—most in English for the first time The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy’s political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time. The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig’s body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors. Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish.

Author: Francesca Billiani
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Meanwhile, by assimilating the Other into our own modes of representation of reality and imagination, twentieth-century female writers of the fantastic show how alternative identities can be shaped and social constituencies can be challenged."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669627
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development.

Author: Emma Perodi
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Nancy L. Canepa
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814349218
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English. This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered "classic." The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.

Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Italian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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