By Armando Maggi
If we wish to rediscover the facility of fairy tales—as Armando Maggi thinks we should—we have to find a new mythic lens, a brand new manner of coming near near and knowing, and hence re-creating, the transformative power of those tales. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that step one is to appreciate the heritage of a number of the traditions of oral and written narrative that jointly created the fairy stories we all know this day. He starts his exploration with the ur-text of ecu fairy stories, Giambattista Basile’s The story of Tales, then lines its course via later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with specific emphasis at the Grimm Brothers’ diversifications of the stories, that are incorporated within the first-ever English translation in an appendix. sporting his tale into the 20 th century, Maggi mounts a strong argument for liberating fairy stories from their bland modern types, and reinvigorating our trust that we nonetheless can locate new, powerfully transformative methods of telling those stories.
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