Publication details
I sogni fiabeschi nella tradizione italiana e mediterranea
| Title in English | Fairy-tale dreams in the Italian and Mediterranean tradition |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Dreams and fairy tales have always been connected in some way. The various fairy tale motifs in the Mediterranean have constantly travelled and been transmitted by oral tradition, reflecting to some extent the collective national memory of the various Mediterranean national literatures. Some tales and myths are believed to have originated from the dreams of our ancestors. In my lecture I would like to discuss the different functions of the dream in the original collections of Italian and Sicilian fairy tales (Giambattista Basile, Giuseppe Pitré), since their conception is very diverse: in some cases the dream reveals the future, in others it advises the heroes where to find treasure or how to defeat an adversary, etc. In this context, it is certainly interesting to compare the dream motif with other contemporary dream motifs elsewhere in the Mediterranean - I am thinking in particular of the Arabic tales collected by Antoine Galland in his collection A Thousand and One Nights, but also of Charles Perrault's well-known collection of French fairy tales from the late 17th century, since the dream motif often appears in contexts strikingly similar to those found in traditional Italian fairy tales. Interestingly, although the tales change significantly over time, the dream motifs in them remain stable. |