Roma: Carocci, 2008.īasile, Giambattista. In Oggetti della letteratura italiana, a cura di Gian Mario Anselmi e Gino Ruozzi, 12-20. This analysis leads us to suggest several intriguing research hypotheses concerning the symbolic bonds between fashion, fable and childhood, and the possible references between the clothing and accessories of fairytales, historical-cultural developments, the political landscape, and fashions of the time.Īrvigo, Tiziana. We hypothesize a novel approach to classifying these objects based on correlating the functionality of an accessory with its position on the character’s body. The present contribution analyzes the clothing and accessories appearing in a sizeable body of classical and contemporary illustrated fairytales. But these objects can also carry symbolic messages that tell us a great deal more about the characters too, the privileges they enjoy, the powers they represent, and the dramas they experience.

They reveal the qualities of our heroes or heroines, the social sphere to which they belong, and their standing. The items that cover, protect and adorn the bodies of the characters have a very special place in fairytales. Their sturdy animism certainly facilitated this process of attraction, with their talking animals, wonderful clothes, and magical objects. Though they were not conceived or created for children, fairytales have always succeeded in striking a chord with the world of childhood ever since the dawn of civilization. The Changing Domestic Settings of Fairy-tales (Encyclopaideia, 2017, 49: 6-28)įairytale Clothing, Fairytale Accessory, 16th- and 17th-Century Western European Fashion, Queenship, Imagery Abstract

Recent publications: L’utile e il dilettevole della Letteratura per l'infanzia 0-3 anni (Nuova Secondaria, 2018, 7: 86-104) Il cacciatore di pieghe (Pensa Multimedia, 2017) Bruno Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milano (eds., John Benjamins, 2017) From Palace to House. In 2013, hosted the Ninth Annual International Conference of The Child and the Book and in 2017 she was appointed to organize the 6 th International Conference of the European Network of Picturebook Research. Main research fields include history and theory of children's literature, picturebooks, fairy-tales, reading pedagogy and Italian children’s writers.

Ph.D., researcher in Children's Literature at the Department FISPPA, University of Padua.

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