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Breaking the magic spell : radical theories of folk and fairy tales / Jack Zipes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zipes, Jack, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--History and criticism.
- Tales.
- Fairy tales--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
- Summary:
- Breaking the Magic Spell, first published in 1979, is a landmark in the field, and this revised, expanded, and updated edition will be invaluable to scholars and students.
- Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behavior. In the seven essays in Breaking the Magic Spell, 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.
- Zipes 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813190304
- OCLC:
- 48517643
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