The Irresistible Fairy Tale : : The Cultural and Social History of a Genre / / Jack Zipes.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Vydání: | Course Book |
| Jazyk: | English |
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics
- 2. The Meaning of Fairy Tale within the Evolution of Culture
- 3. Remaking "Bluebeard," or Good- bye to Perrault
- 4. Witch as Fairy/Fairy as Witch: Unfathomable Baba Yagas
- 5. The Tales of Innocent Persecuted Heroines and Their Neglected Female Storytellers and Collectors
- 6. Giuseppe Pitrè and the Great Collectors of Folk Tales in the Nineteenth Century
- 7. Fairy- Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre
- Appendix A. Sensationalist Scholarship: A "New" History of Fairy Tales
- Appendix B. Reductionist Scholarship: A "New" Definition of the Fairy Tale
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index