La novella nun e' bella, se sopra nun ci si rappella: The Art of Storytelling from Luigi Capuana to Italo Calvino
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2004
Journal / Book Title
John D. Calandra Institute, “Seminar Series in Italian American Studies"
Abstract
In recent years literary folktales have become regarded, as they were at their inception, as a genre of social, national, and moral commentary. Yet, the contributions of Luigi Capuana and Italo Calvino towards the reemergence of a genre considered dead in Italy have been denied critical attention. In the fairy tale collections of Capuana and Calvino, raconteur and audience communicate with, and through, the page; their voices move through time, gathering remnants of their collective past from the tales and finding in the process a sense of community. Like silk, tales are spun, woven and rewoven with ancient and contemporary threads and then disseminated in written and oral form. Gina Miele’s talk will examine how Italian folktales evolve, along with the people who recount them, over the dual expanses of time and space.
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Miele, Gina M., "La novella nun e' bella, se sopra nun ci si rappella: The Art of Storytelling from Luigi Capuana to Italo Calvino" (2004). Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 104.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/104
