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Author Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Title Fairy tale as myth/myth as fairy tale / Jack Zipes
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations
Series The Thomas D. Clark lectures ; 1993
Thomas D. Clark lectures ; 1993.
Contents The origins of the fairy tale -- Rumpelstiltskin and the decline of female productivity -- Breaking the Disney spell -- Spreading myths about Iron John -- Oz as American myth -- The contemporary American fairy tale
Summary "" 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 e
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index
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Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism
Fairy tales -- Classification
Fairy tales -- Classification.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Fairy tales
Märchen
Mythos
Sprookjes.
Mythen.
Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Europa
Genre/Form Classification
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fairy tales
Fairy tales
Classification.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94013777
ISBN 081314390X
9780813143903
9780813143910
0813143918