The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre
Zipes, Jack, 1937-2012
Book
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Author:
Imprint:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Collation:
xvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.
Contents:
The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard", or Good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as Fairy/Fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Giuseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the Explosion of a genre.
ISBN:
978069115338406911533889780691159553
Dewey class:
398.2
Language:
English
BRN:
248654