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From: Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand
[(essay date 1979) An American writer and educator, Zipes is the author of The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood (1983) and Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the... -
From: The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, Edited and[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Neumann evaluates the extent to which the Brothers Grimm "faithfully" preserved folk tales in keeping with the Germanic oral tradition, stating that, "storytellers of an...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction "Seven Brooms" is adapted from a Neapolitan tale, "Cunto d' 'e duie mercante" or "The Tale of Two Merchants," which was recorded by Vincenzo della Sala and published in the journal Giambattista Basile:...
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From: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Zipes examines both the social and political messages of the tales and the attempts of later German writers to adapt them according to their own political agendas. Zipes also...
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From: Cultural Analysis[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Zipes provides an overview of Ruth B. Bottingheimer’s scholarship on fairy tales and discusses her contentions about the genre’s history, which, he argues, fail to recognize the...
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From: The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood[(essay date 1993) In this excerpt, Zipes discusses the origins of the "Little Red Riding Hood" tale and analyzes how Perrault transforms it for a bourgeois-aristocratic audience.] Little Red Riding Hood has never...
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From:Journal of American Folklore (Vol. 121, Issue 480) Peer-ReviewedPan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno). 2006. By Guillermo del Toro. 112 min. DVD format, color. (New Line Home Video, New York.) At the very beginning of Guillermo del Toro's harrowing fairy-tale film, Pan's...
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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay explains why it is important to explore and to apply theories from the sciences and social sciences, such as biology, memetics, evolutionary psychology, and cultural anthropology, in order to grasp...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThink of a gigantic whale soaring through the ocean and swallowing each and every fish of any size that comes across its path. The marvelous and majestic whale had once lived on land 54 million years ago and had been...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[A review of Swamp Angel.] It is a joy to read tall tales and legends that revise American folklore in provocative ways and are just as interesting for adults as they are for children. . . . In the case of Swamp...
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From: No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Zipes examines inconsistencies in Bradbury's sociopolitical criticism of post-World War II America in Fahrenheit 451.] Perhaps it is endemic to academic criticism of science...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor years the public image of Hans Christian Andersen in North America has been associated with images of Danny Kaye singing "I'm Hans Christian Andersen" in the popular 1952 Samuel Goldwyn film. Happy-go-lucky, adored...
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From: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France[(essay date 1997) In the following excerpt, Zipes analyzes Perrault's "Puss in Boots" and explains how Perrault's account has become the canonical version of the tale.] [Giambattista Basile's "Puss in Boots"], though...
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From: New German Critique[(essay date autumn 1975) In the following essay, Zipes discusses the politics of eighteenth-century German folk and fairy tales, which, he argues, reflect the power struggles and social realities of the pre-capitalist...
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From: Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy Tale Studies[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Zipes examines Carter's early fairy tales for children for elements she would use later in her postmodern revisionist tales.] Long before Angela Carter had conceived the tales...
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From: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France[Giambattista Basile's "Puss in Boots"], though humorous, contains a devastating critique of the feudal system of that time and represents a moral code that was not yet fully instituted within the civilizing process in...
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From: The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Zipes studies different types of male protagonists in Grimms' Fairy Tales, demonstrating how their behavior reinforces bourgeois ideals of male gender roles.] In her...
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From: New York Times Book ReviewON Aug. 5, 1942, the director of an orphanage for Jewish children on Warsaw, Henryk Goldszmit, known throughout Poland under his pen name Janusz Korczak, accompanied more than 200 orphans to the main railroad station....
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPerhaps the most important collection of fairy tales in the nineteenth century is not the Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Children and Household Tales, 1857) assembled and edited by the Brothers Grimm, but Sicilianische...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Zipes argues that the protagonist's refusal to grow-up in Peter Pan is a fantasy metaphor for Barrie's own antipathy to British empirical, social, and financial expectations.]...