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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Even though the fairy tale may be the most important cultural and social event in most children's lives, critics and scholars have failed to study..." (more)
Key Phrases: experimental fairy tales, classical fairy tales, liberating tales, New York, Little Red Riding Hood, Nazi Germany (more...)
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Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale and shows how educated writers purposefully appropriated the oral folk tale in the eighteenth century and made it into a discourse about mores, values, and manners.

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  • Paperback: 214 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (July 24, 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415905133
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415905138
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
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  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,260,222 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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