When Dreams Came True Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

Name: When Dreams Came True Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
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ISBN: 9780415980074

ISBN-10: 0415980070

ISBN-13: 9780415980074

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Jack Zipes

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For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? In When Dreams Came True , Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights , The Happy Prince or Pinocchio , L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic preferences within…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Spells of Enchantment: An Overview of the History of Fairy Tales



The Rise of the French Fairy Tale and the Decline of France



The Splendor of the Arabian Nights



Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm



The "Merry" Dance of the Nutcracker: Discovering the World through Fairy Tales



I'm Hans Christian Andersen



The Flowering of the Fairy Tale in Victorian England



Oscar Wilde's Tales of Illumination



Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as Tragic-Comic Fairy Tale



Frank Stockton, American Pioneer of Fairy Tales



L. Frank Baum and the Utopian Spirit of Oz



Revisiting J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and Neverland



Hermann Hesse's Fairy Tales and the Pursuit of Home


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