{"title":"The Wicked Stepmother","authors":"Emilie van Opstall","doi":"10.1515/fabula-2023-0017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The story of Syntipas/the Seven Sages travelled as an international bestseller through the Near East and Europe, from the Middle Ages up to Early Modernity, and was adapted by its translators to each new context. Belonging to the genre of wisdom literature, it circulated in over thirty languages and under various titles. This article addresses processes of creative adaptation in different cultural contexts by comparing two early versions, the Book of Syntipas the Philosopher in Greek from the eleventh century and Dolopathos in Latin from the twelfth century. By way of case study, it offers an analysis of the ‘bedroom scene’ in both versions and discusses the different ways with which female agency is dealt.","PeriodicalId":42252,"journal":{"name":"FABULA","volume":"13 1","pages":"298 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FABULA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2023-0017","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The story of Syntipas/the Seven Sages travelled as an international bestseller through the Near East and Europe, from the Middle Ages up to Early Modernity, and was adapted by its translators to each new context. Belonging to the genre of wisdom literature, it circulated in over thirty languages and under various titles. This article addresses processes of creative adaptation in different cultural contexts by comparing two early versions, the Book of Syntipas the Philosopher in Greek from the eleventh century and Dolopathos in Latin from the twelfth century. By way of case study, it offers an analysis of the ‘bedroom scene’ in both versions and discusses the different ways with which female agency is dealt.
期刊介绍：
Fabula is a medium of discussion for issues of all kinds which are of interest to international folk narrative research. The journal contains eight divisions: Articles, Minor Contributions, Research Reports and Conference Reports, News, Projects and Queries, Reviews, Bibliographical Notes, and Books Received. Principal themes of the article section are the study of popular narrative traditions in their various forms (fairy tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, exempla, fables, ballads, etc.), the interrelationship between oral and literary traditions as well as the contemporary genres. Interest focuses on Europe and overseas countries which are influenced by European civilization, but still, there is quite a number of contributions from other culture areas.
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