Jack Zipes: 26 books
Relentless Progress
The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales...
Grimm Legacies
The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of...
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
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...
by Jack Zipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression....
by Jack Zipes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected...
Why Fairy Tales Stick
The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
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...
Speaking Out
Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within...
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Complete First Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people...
The Enchanted Screen
The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author. With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks...
by Jack Zipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of 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...
Creative Storytelling
Building Community/Changing Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of...
Breaking the Magic Spell
Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2002
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political...
The Cloak of Dreams
Chinese Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife's soul or body. And two deaf mutes transcend their...
by Hans Christian Andersen, Jack Zipes, Marte Hvam Hult
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...
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