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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Dancing Backward: An Introduction 1
4. Part I. “Cupid and Psyche,” The Tale of Tales, and the Birth of Western Fairy Tale
5. 1. A Never Ending and Never Told Tale: Basile’s Undoing of “Cupid and Psyche” 25
6. 2. Orpheus, the King of the Birds, Moves to Sicily with Cupid and Psyche: Laura Gonzenbach’s “King Cardiddu” 68
7. 3. Melancholy Is the Best Storyteller: Oil, Water, and Blood from Gonzenbach back to Basile 87
8. Part II. The Italian Tales and German Romanticism: The Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Novalis
9. 4. What We Leave Behind: Fairies, Letters, Rose Petals, and Sprigs of Myrtle 111
10. 5. The Fairy, the Myrtle, and the Myrtle-Maiden: From Basile to the Grimms and Brentano 124
11. 6. How to Undo The Tale of Tales: Brentano and the End of Fairy Tales 148
12. 7. Where Are the Ogresses of Yesteryear? The Neapolitan Cupids and Psyches in the Hands of the Brothers Grimm 171
13. 8. Beauty, Zulima, and Aline: The Marvel Preceding and Following the World According to Novalis 188
14. Part III. American Postmodernism, Memoirs, and a New Beginning
15. 9. “You Will Never Awaken Because the Story You Were In No Longer Exists”: Coover, Postmodernism, and the End of an Era 213
16. 10. “Disney World Has Become a Kind of Reverse Lourdes”: From Stanley Elkin back to Basile 248
17. 11. “A Benign Fairy Tale out of the Brothers Grimm”: Memoirs and the Magic of Reality 257
18. 12. “Everything Beautiful Is Gone”: Beasts of the Southern Wild and a New Beginning 278
19. Appendix: The Grimm Brothers’ Adaptation of Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales 287
20. Notes 347
21. Index 397