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- Title: Magnanini, Suzanne. Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile
- Author : Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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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.