[Sca-cooks] A/S Competitions was Cooking Competitions
Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu
Mon Nov 3 08:25:03 PST 2008
>The frame tale is an ancient form of story telling. A bit like literary
>"Russian Dolls" with one tale within another and another... The best I
>could do was about five layers in if memory serves me correctly. An outer
>layer frame set in the 16th century, an inner layer frame set at the time
>of Richard's Crusade and then nights within that that framed their various
>tales which occasionally framed takes within them. "Canterbury Tales",
>"The Decameron " and "1001 Nights" are the best known examples to modern
>Engish speaking audiences albeit all in "translation". "The Heptameron"
>is less well know to such but is considered a classic of Frence
>literature. Tis well worth the effort to find in translation if you don't
>read French. "The Pentameron" in Italian is less known than the "The
>Decameron" and to my mind deserves to be. Burton did a translation of
>it. There are other examples just can't think of them this early in the
>morning.
>
>Daniel
The Pancatantra ("5 Tales," I believe) is a South Asian take on
interlocking tales. It's been quite a while since I last read it.
Sandra
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