Preserving the Spell

图书信息

作者	Maggi, Armando
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226243016
出版时间	2015-07-21
字数	89.1万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous-in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises.?If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales-as Armando Maggi thinks we should-we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers' adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Dancing Backward: An Introduction

PART I “CUPID AND PSYCHE,” THE TALE OF TALES, AND THE BIRTH OF WESTERN FAIRY TALE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

PART II THE ITALIAN TALES AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM: THE BROTHERS GRIMM, CLEMENS BRENTANO, NOVALIS

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

PART III AMERICAN POSTMODERNISM, MEMOIRS, AND A NEW BEGINNING

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

Appendix: The Grimms’ Adaptation of Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales

Notes

Index