Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales
by Jack Zipes
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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 context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular show more beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the mysti. show lessTags
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very Marxist
For Kunzler's Rumpelstiltskin, probably skim the rest.
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Academic Studies of Fairy Tales and Folklore
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- Canonical title
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales
- Original publication date
- 1979-02-01
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- Battle of Five Armies
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