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"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
- Lewis Thomas,
The Medusa and the Snail
(1979)
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| | Fairy Tale as Myth Myth as Fairy Tale
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| | by Jack Zipes
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ZIN Product Number: 10307053
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 Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813108349
Release Date: Jan 5, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
This volume "endeavors to look at the 'evolution of the fairy tale as a literary genre . . . marked by a process of dialectical appropriation involving duplication and revision that set the cultural conditions for its mythicization, institutionalization, and expansion as a mass-mediated form through radio, film, and television.' Following a chapter that traces the origin of the fairy tale, Zipes turns to contemporary iterations and devotes chapters to Walt Disney, Robert Bly's Iron John, Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz (1899), and brief mentions of a . . . range of writers from Jane Yolen to Stephen Sondheim and Robert Coover to Terri Windling." (Choice) Bibliography. Index.
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Jack Zipes begins this lively and provocative work by exploring the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classic fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" formation and articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes shows how Walt Disney appropriated Snow White to express notions of American male individualism and how L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz has been interpreted in film and literature as a critique of American myths. Zipes also takes on Robert Bly's Iron John, a myth for the American men's movement created out of Bly's misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales.
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| | | |  | | | | List of Illustrations | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | The Origins of the Fairy Tale | 17 | | 2 | Rumpelstiltskin and the Decline of Female Productivity | 49 | | 3 | Breaking the Disney Spell | 72 | | 4 | Spreading Myths about Iron John | 96 | | 5 | Oz as American Myth | 119 | | 6 | The Contemporary American Fairy Tale | 139 | | Notes | 162 | | Bibliography | 175 | | Index | 186 |
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| | | | | | Keywords
Fairy tales, History and criticism, Classification, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Social Science, Folklore & Mythology
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