Title: Breaking the magic spell
Subtitle: radical theories of folk and fairy tales
First published: 1979
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
Subjects: History and criticism, Tales, Fairy tales, Tales, history and criticism, Fairy tales, history and criticism, Folklore, theory, methods, etc., Folklore, Folk literature, Economic forecasting, Forecasting, Social sciences, Research