The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre / Jack Zipes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zipes, Jack, 1937- author.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--History and criticism.

Fairy tales.

Fairy tales--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics 1

Chapter 2 The Meaning of Fairy Tale within the Evolution of Culture 21

Chapter 3 Remaking "Bluebeard," or Good-bye to Perrault 41

Chapter 4 Witch as Fairy/Fairy as Witch: Unfathomable Baba Yagas 55

Chapter 5 The Tales of Innocent Persecuted Heroines and Their Neglected Female Storytellers and Collectors 80

Chapter 6 Giuseppe Pitrè and the Great Collectors of Folk Tales in the Nineteenth Century 109

Chapter 7 Fairy-Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

787846197

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.