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Author Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Title The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre / Jack Zipes.
Publication Info Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.


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Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations
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Contents 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 -- Guiseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the explosion of a genre -- Appendix A: sensationalist scholarship: a "new" hsitory of fairy tales -- Appendix B: Reductionist scholarship: a "new" definition of the fairy tale.
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ISBN 9781400841820 (electronic bk.)
1400841828 (electronic bk.)
128049414X
9781280494147
0691153388
9780691153384
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Author Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- Social aspects.
Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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 -- Guiseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the explosion of a genre -- Appendix A: sensationalist scholarship: a "new" hsitory of fairy tales -- Appendix B: Reductionist scholarship: a "new" definition of the fairy tale.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781400841820 (electronic bk.)
1400841828 (electronic bk.)
128049414X
9781280494147
0691153388
9780691153384
Author Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- Social aspects.

Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- Social aspects.
Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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 -- Guiseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the explosion of a genre -- Appendix A: sensationalist scholarship: a "new" hsitory of fairy tales -- Appendix B: Reductionist scholarship: a "new" definition of the fairy tale.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781400841820 (electronic bk.)
1400841828 (electronic bk.)
128049414X
9781280494147
0691153388
9780691153384
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