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The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre
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The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre / Jack Zipes.
ISBN
9780691153384 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691153388 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 02, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.
Contents
The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics
The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture
Remaking "Bluebeard", or Good-bye to Perrault
Witch as Fairy/Fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas
The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors
Giuseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century
Fairy-tale collisions, or the Explosion of a genre.
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