Relentless progress : the reconfiguration of children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling /
Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Relentless progress : the reconfiguration of children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling / Jack Zipes. - New York : Routledge, 2009. - xv, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.
The reconfiguration of children and children's literature in the culture industry -- Misreading children and the fate of the book -- Why fantasy matters too much -- The multicultural contradictions of international children's literature: three complaints and three wishes -- What makes a repulsive frog so appealing: applying memetics to folk and fairy tales -- And nobody lived happily ever after: the feminist fairy tale after forty years of fighting for survival -- Storytelling as spectacle in the globalized world.
9780415990646 9780415990639 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415990637 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415990646 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415990645 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203927564 (e-book) 0203927567 (e-book)
2008021844
Children's literature--History and criticism.
Children's literature--Social aspects.
Children--Books and reading.
PN1009.A1 / Z56 2009
809/.89282
Relentless progress : the reconfiguration of children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling / Jack Zipes. - New York : Routledge, 2009. - xv, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.
The reconfiguration of children and children's literature in the culture industry -- Misreading children and the fate of the book -- Why fantasy matters too much -- The multicultural contradictions of international children's literature: three complaints and three wishes -- What makes a repulsive frog so appealing: applying memetics to folk and fairy tales -- And nobody lived happily ever after: the feminist fairy tale after forty years of fighting for survival -- Storytelling as spectacle in the globalized world.
9780415990646 9780415990639 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415990637 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415990646 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415990645 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203927564 (e-book) 0203927567 (e-book)
2008021844
Children's literature--History and criticism.
Children's literature--Social aspects.
Children--Books and reading.
PN1009.A1 / Z56 2009
809/.89282