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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition Hardcover - 2007 - 2nd Edition

by Jack Zipes


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For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why?

In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Prince or Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic preferences within particular social contexts. Above all, he demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process-the way it imparts values, norms, and aesthetic taste to children and adults.

This second edition of one of Jack Zipes's best-loved books includes a new preface and two new chapters on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

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  • Title When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
  • Author Jack Zipes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2007-04-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780415980067 / 0415980062
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.08 x 0.98 in (23.42 x 15.44 x 2.49 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006101179
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

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Citations

  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 12/01/2007, Page 195

About the author

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature, his most recent books include Why Fairy Tales Stick, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, Beautiful Angiola, and The Robber with the Witch's Head, all published by Routledge.

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