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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Author: Jack David Zipes
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1697240

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 201

ISBN: 0292707258
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.21094
EAN: 9780292707252
ASIN: 0292707258

Publication Date: January 1980
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Condition: Hardcover, dust jacket. ExLibrary w/usual markings, back end page removed, mylar cover, etc. Light wear. Pages unmarked, binding tight.

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•	Paperback - Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
•	Unknown Binding - Breaking the magic spell: Radical theories of folk and fairy tales
•	Paperback - Breaking the magic spell: Radical theories of folk and fairy tales
•	Paperback - Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
•	Unknown Binding - Breaking the magic spell: Radical theories of folk and fairy tales

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Editorial Reviews:

Book Description
Breaking the Magic Spell, first published in 1979, is considered a landmark of the field, and this revised, expanded, and updated edition will be invaluable to scholars and students.

Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behavior. In seven essays collected in Breaking the Magic Spell, Zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them, and the way they are used in mass media culture today. Zipes looks at how a wide range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, the German romantics, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilde, and Tolkien, used fairy tales as he assesses their enduring importance.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

good book January 3, 2007
3 out of 14 found this review helpful

It is very interesting and it gives you so much information about the fairy tales and the mass media industry.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Overview of Nonstandard Folktale Theories April 28, 2000
33 out of 34 found this review helpful

I really love Jack Zipes, and this is one of his helpful books for folklorists, and amateurs who enjoy reading fairy tales. It presents a variety of 'radical' theories about the meaning and construction of fairy tales. Many of the theories are no longer quite so radical. The book also gives you a good overview of feminist theories about the tales, some of which will surprise. Among other things, that fairy tales are not always about the subjugation of silly blond princesses. I reccomend this book as an intro to folk and fairy tale theory.