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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes ISBN: 0-415-91851-0 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful and Intriguing View of Tales and Culture
Comment: I really disagree with the previous review of this book. Zipes doesn't distort the tales meaning at all. Instead he avoids the facile, obvious surface reading, and goes deeper into the many varied meanings of what any one tale can mean. I especially enjoyed the sections on how tales were twisted and edited to reinforce our ideas of childhood and what is appropriate for children to read. For instance, the Grimms' tales were heavily edited over time making them less violent, adding in strict moral messages, and generally making the female characters more annoying (see Bottigheimer's Grimms Bold Boys and Bad Girls for a great analysis of this). I highly reccomend this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Weak
Comment: The insights here are few and far between. Zipes labors much too hard twisting these tales to fit his own political agenda. In a typical chapter, Zipes tries to explain how fairy tales demonstrate that cats are better than people. Many better books have been written on the subject.
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Title: When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition (Literary Studies) by Jack David Zipes ISBN: 0415921511 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale (The Thomas D. Clark Lectures : 1993) by Jack Zipes ISBN: 0813108349 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack David Zipes ISBN: 0813190304 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner ISBN: 0374524874 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen ISBN: 0394751884 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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