Il Pentamerone: The She-Bear
Catherine Coghlan
Dr. Robert Meade
English 320 VO2
10/23/2014
Il Pentamerone: The She-Bear
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with astounding accounts of monsters and other marvels of courageous men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young females growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as “fairy tales,” these stories had many guises and inhabited a variation of literary texts. One of the first collections of such fairy tales, published in 1634, was Giambattista Basile's Tale of Tales, later known at the Pentamerone, which was greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. The Pentamerone, an Italian collection of folk tales, was first published in Naples, and in a Neapolitan dialect.
The Pentamerone is structured around a fantastic frame story, in which fifty stories are related over the course of five days. In Jacke Zipes’s The Great Fairy Tale Tradition, he explains the frame story is that of a cursed, unhappy princess named Zoza. Princess Zoza cannot laugh, no matter what her father does to entertain her, so the father …show more content…
Kleiner, and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005), p. 516.
Basile, Giambattista, John Edward. Taylor, Helen Zimmern, and George Cruikshank. The Pentamore; Or, the Story of Stories. London: Fisher Unwin, 1893. Print.
Magnanini, Suzanne. "Chapter 4/'Per Far Vere Le Favole:' Manipulating. Maternal Desire in Basile's Frame Tale." Fairy-tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile. 2nd ed. Toronto: U of Toronto, 2008. N. pag. Print.
Fargis, Paul (1998). The New York Public Library Desk Reference (third ed.). New York: Macmillan General Reference. p. 262.
Zipes, Jack. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm: Texts, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Dr. Robert Meade
English 320 VO2
10/23/2014
Il Pentamerone: The She-Bear
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with astounding accounts of monsters and other marvels of courageous men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young females growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as “fairy tales,” these stories had many guises and inhabited a variation of literary texts. One of the first collections of such fairy tales, published in 1634, was Giambattista Basile's Tale of Tales, later known at the Pentamerone, which was greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. The Pentamerone, an Italian collection of folk tales, was first published in Naples, and in a Neapolitan dialect.
The Pentamerone is structured around a fantastic frame story, in which fifty stories are related over the course of five days. In Jacke Zipes’s The Great Fairy Tale Tradition, he explains the frame story is that of a cursed, unhappy princess named Zoza. Princess Zoza cannot laugh, no matter what her father does to entertain her, so the father …show more content…
Kleiner, and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005), p. 516.
Basile, Giambattista, John Edward. Taylor, Helen Zimmern, and George Cruikshank. The Pentamore; Or, the Story of Stories. London: Fisher Unwin, 1893. Print.
Magnanini, Suzanne. "Chapter 4/'Per Far Vere Le Favole:' Manipulating. Maternal Desire in Basile's Frame Tale." Fairy-tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile. 2nd ed. Toronto: U of Toronto, 2008. N. pag. Print.
Fargis, Paul (1998). The New York Public Library Desk Reference (third ed.). New York: Macmillan General Reference. p. 262.
Zipes, Jack. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm: Texts, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.