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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale Hardcover - 1994

by Jack Zipes


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" Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.

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In his endeavor to establish the origins of the fairy tale for children, Peter Brooks stated that "when at the end of the seventeenth century Perrault writes down and publishes tales which had been told for indeterminate centuries- and would continue to be told, and would be collected in varying versions by the Grimm Brothers and other modern folklorists-he seems to be performing for children;s literature what must have been effected for literature long before: that is, he is creating a literature where before there had been myth and folklore.

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  • Title Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
  • Author Jack Zipes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kentucky, Lexington
  • Date December 1994
  • ISBN 9780813118901 / 0813118905
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94013777
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.21
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