Breaking the magic spell
Subtitle: radical theories of folk and fairy tales
By: Jack Zipes.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lexington,KY; [Great Britain]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Tales -- History and criticism.; Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Description: "In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the mystical elements of the stories. He examines a range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Ernst Bloch, Tolkien, Bettelheim, and J.K. Rowling to demonstrate the continuing symbolic relationship between folklore and literature." -- book cover
Notes: Previous ed.: 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.