Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale - Couverture souple

Zipes, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813108349 ISBN 13 : 9780813108346

Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 1994

Synopsis

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. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University Press of Kentucky
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813108349
• ISBN 13: 9780813108346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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