Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813190303)

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 belie

Author: Jack Zipes
ISBN-10: 0813190304
ISBN-13: 9780813190303
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2002
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.80w x 0.74d