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Languages : fr
Pages : 566
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Le cabinet des fées
Author: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135210292
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. For this new edition, the author has revised the work throughout and added a new introduction bringing this classic title up to date.
History of Prose Fiction
Author: John Colin DunlopPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Fairy Tales as Literature of Literature
Author: Lothar BluhmPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662660008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the well-known fairy tale narratives, in the course of the editing process by the Brothers Grimm, essentially by Wilhelm Grimm. By means of a series of model studies – including Rapunzel, Jorinde und Joringel and Der Jude im Dorn – it is shown that the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, contrary to their traditional assessment as 'folk tales', are of literary origin and have a literary character themselves.
Why Fairy Tales Stick
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135204357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.
Le cabinet des fées; ou Collection choisie des contes des fées, et autres contes merveilleux
Author: Charles PerraultThe Arabian Nights and Orientalism
Author: Tetsuo NishioPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857710508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Arabian Nights and Orientalism in Resonance was especially commissioned to celebrate the tercentenary of the first Western edition of The Arabian Nights. This volume marries Western and Japanese perspectives on The Arabian Nights to provide a fascinating study of how this literary phenomenon brought about a unique and rich cross-cultural fertilization. The volume is divided into three sections: the first part deals with narrative motifs and styles; the second part examines the 'Nights' from a comparative point of view and the third part unfolds the relationship between the written text and its pictorial representation. Extensively illustrated throughout, The Arabian Nights and Orientalism in Resonance will be of interest to scholars of the Middle East as well as anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of Scheherazade's stories.
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè
Author: Giuseppe PitrèPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415980313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136094342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This is volume 2 of a two-volume set that collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brothers Grimm. In stark contrast to the more literary ambitions of the Grimms' tales, Pitré’s possess a charming, earthy quality that reflect the customs, beliefs, and superstitions of the common people more clearly than any other European folklore collection of the 19th century. Edited, translated, and with a critical introduction by world-renowned folk and fairy tale experts Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo, this is the first collection of Pitré’s tales available in English. Carmelo Letterer's illustrations throughout the volume are as lively and vivid as the stories themselves, illuminating the remarkable imagination captured in the tales.
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