Fairy Tales are a highly fashionable study today for literary scholars as well as folklorists, and another new book shows what a range of interest can be evoked by them. This time in Jack Zipes' interesting and vigorous study.
Zipes manages the impressive trick of communicating both detail and overview without simplifying either... the serious folklorist should should defnitely have this on his bookshelf.
Folklorists, educators and historians will particularly find this resource to be valuable. But educators and parents will also find Zipes's ideas intriguing.
Folks and Fairies in Action (resourcecenterblog.wordpress.com) - Elizabeth Herron
This problematic, provocative study will undoubtedly provide stimulating reading for many audiences.
A stimulating contribution to the critical literature of folk and fairy tales.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Places traditional tales in their socio-political, economic and cultural contexts.
The name Jack Zipes is synonymous with highly regarded and widely read anthologies and critiques of fairy tales.
Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives.
Zipes has written a stimulating and important contribution to the sociology of popular literature.
"A stimulating contribution to the critical literature of folk and fairy tales." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly
"All libraries should acquire this new edition of one of the most influential texts in the field." -- Choice
"Fairy Tales are a highly fashionable study today for literary scholars as well as folklorists, and another new book shows what a range of interest can be evoked by them. This time in Jack Zipes' interesting and vigorous study." -- Encounter
"Folklorists, educators and historians will particularly find this resource to be valuable. But educators and parents will also find Zipes's ideas intriguing." -- Elizabeth Herron, Folks and Fairies in Action (resourcecenterblog.wordpress.com)
"Places traditional tales in their socio-political, economic and cultural contexts." -- Teacher Librarian
"The name Jack Zipes is synonymous with highly regarded and widely read anthologies and critiques of fairy tales." -- Choice
"This problematic, provocative study will undoubtedly provide stimulating reading for many audiences." -- Romantic Movement
"Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." -- Lore and Language
"Zipes has written a stimulating and important contribution to the sociology of popular literature." -- Sociological Review
"Zipes manages the impressive trick of communicating both detail and overview without simplifying either... the serious folklorist should should defnitely have this on his bookshelf." -- Fortean Times
"Zipes reveals the extraordinary breadth of his acquaintance with both recent and classic literature in the field of folk and fairytale research." -- Fabula
Considering classic children's fairy tales to , Zipes (German, U. of Minnesota) raises questions about such literature's intended audience, standards, role in today's culture, and what makes a good reader. In this expansion of his seminal 1979 sociopolitical study, he analyzes the history, original utopian function, and "culture industry's" commercialization of such tales. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
