Irresistible Fairy Tale The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

Name: Irresistible Fairy Tale The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
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ISBN: 9780691159553

ISBN-10: 0691159556

ISBN-13: 9780691159553

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jack Zipes

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If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold--and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world.Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



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 Pitrï¿½ and the Great Collectors of Folk Tales in the Nineteenth Century



Fairy-Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre



Sensationalist Scholarship: A "New" History of Fairy Tales



Reductionist Scholarship: A "New" Definition of the Fairy Tale


Notes


Bibliography


Index