Magnanini, Suzanne. Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile Magnanini, Suzanne. Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile

Magnanini, Suzanne. Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile

Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 2011, Spring, 21, 2

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Magnanini, Suzanne. Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile. Toronto: University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2008. 221 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-8020-9754-5. $45.00. With Fairy-Tale Science, Suzanne Magnanini delivers a beautifully written and impressively researched exploration of the works of Straparola and Giambattista Basile. Magnanini effectively recreates the cultural milieu of Italy during the time of Straparola and Basile to give context to their fairy tales, she tracks the advancement of science to show how New Science discoveries shaped these tales, and she offers a teratological investigation of radical transformations present in perceived scientific reality and created fairy tale fiction. In regard to the marvelous and monstrous tales Straparola and Basile wove, she places the science back into the fiction that has long been deemphasized or forgotten outright. To paraphrase Magnanini's quotation from Italo Calvino, she aims and succeeds in restoring the historical fruit surrounding the morphological pit of Italian fairy tales by refurbishing the enriching cultural context recently removed by universalizing theories.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2011
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
6
Pages
PUBLISHER
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
61.2
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