CALL FOR PAPERS ON:

Early Modern Fairy Tales

a panel to be held at the Renaissance Society of America 2011 meeting in Montreal, Canada

We invite papers on any aspect of the development of the literary fairy tale in early modern Italy as well as on the influence exerted by the first Italian tale collections (Straparola and Basile) on other European narrative traditions and cultures.

Topics may include but are not limited to: individual authors, collections, and/or tale types; the relation of the new genre of the fairy tale to canonical genres (novella, mythological fable, et al.); the forms and functions of fairy-tale narration; oral vs.literary traditions.

Please send a 1-page CV and 150-word abstract to Nancy Canepa Nancy.L.Canepa@Dartmouth.EDU and Armando Maggi amaggi@uchicago.edu by May 18, 2010.