Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as F.T.-Pa

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: 10/25/1994
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780813108346
ISBN10: 0813108349
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology

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