A critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto de li Cunti written in Neapolitan dialect and published in 1634-36, comprises 50 fairy tales and was the first integral collection of literary fairy tales to appear in Western Europe. It contains some of the best-known fairy tale types, such as Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and others, many in their earliest literary versions. Although it became a central reference point for subsequent fairy tale ...
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A critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto de li Cunti written in Neapolitan dialect and published in 1634-36, comprises 50 fairy tales and was the first integral collection of literary fairy tales to appear in Western Europe. It contains some of the best-known fairy tale types, such as Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and others, many in their earliest literary versions. Although it became a central reference point for subsequent fairy tale writers, such as Perrault and the Grimms, as well as a treasure chest for folklorists, Lo Cunto de li Cunti has had relatively little attention devoted to it by literary scholars.
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