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FAIRY TALE AS MYTH/MYTH AS FAIRY TALE
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| By: |
Jack David Zipes |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813108349 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813108346 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY |
| Pub. date: |
25 October, 1994 |
| Series: |
Clark Lecture |
| Pages: |
206 |
| Description: |
Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late 17th century, also the ideological relationship to domination and oppression in western society. |
| Synopsis: |
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the mystical elements of the stories. He examines a range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Ernst Bloch, Tolkien, Bettelheim, and J.K. Rowling to demonstrate the continuing symbiotic relationship between folklore and literature. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University Press of Kentucky |
| Returns: |
Returnable |