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Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behaviour. In the seven essays in this collection, Zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them and the way they are used in mass media culture today. He looks at how a wide range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, the German romantics, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilde and Tolkien used fairy tales as he assesses their enduring importance.
| ISBN | 0813190304 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780813190303
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | The University Press of Kentucky | | Weight (grammes) | 408 | | Imprint | The University Press of Kentucky | | Published in | Lexington | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 31 Aug 2002 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | 2001007415 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 398.45 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Preface to 2002 Edition | | | | | | Preface to 1979 Edition | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introductory Fairy Tales | | | | 1 | | Once There Was a Time: An Introduction to the History and Ideology of Folk and Fairy Tales | | 1 | | 2 | | Might Makes Right - The Politics of Folk and Fairy Tales | | 23 | | 3 | | The Revolutionary Rise of the Romantic Fairy Tale in Germany | | 47 | | 4 | | The Instrumentalization of Fantasy: Fairy Tales, the Culture Industry and Mass media | | 104 | | 5 | | The Utopian Function of Fairy Tales and Fantasy: Ernst Bloch the Marxist and J.R.R. Tolkien the Catholic | | 146 | | 6 | | On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand | | 179 | | 7 | | The Radical Morality of Rats, Fairies, Wizards and Ogres: Taking Children's Literature Seriously | | 206 | | | | Notes | | 233 | | | | Bibliography | | 253 | | | | Index | | 271 |
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