Jack Zipes

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives - their behavior, values, and relationship to society.

As Jack Zipes convincingly shows in this classic work, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. How and why did certain authors try to influence children or social images of children? How were fairy tales shaped by the changes in European society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Zipes examines famous writers of fairy tales such as Charles Perrault, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and L.Frank Baum and considers the extraordinary impact of Walt Disney on the genre as a fairy tale filmmaker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136646805
• Artikelnr.: 38445709

Autorenporträt

Jack Zipes was formerly Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature and culture, his most recent books include Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller and Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children, both published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Fairy-Tale Discourse: Toward a Social History of the Genre;
Chapter 2 The Origins of the Fairy Tale in Italy: Straparola and Basile;
Chapter 3 Setting Standards for Civilization through Fairy Tales: Charles
Perrault and the Subversive Role of Women Writers; Chapter 4 Who's Afraid
of the Brothers Grimm? Socialization and Politicization through Fairy
Tales; Chapter 5 Hans Christian Andersen and the Discourse of the
Dominated; Chapter 6 Inverting and Subverting the World with Hope: The
Fairy Tales of George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde, and L. Frank Baum; Chapter 7
The Battle over Fairy-Tale Discourse: Family, Friction, and Socialization
in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany; Chapter 8 The Liberating Potential
of the Fantastic in Contemporary Fairy Tales for Children; Chapter 9 Walt
Disney's Civilizing Mission:From Revolution to Restoration; Notes;
Bibliography; Index;