Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular belie

Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/05/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.80w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780813190303
ISBN10: 0813190304
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology

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