Zipes, Jack, 1937-

The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre / Jack Zipes. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. - xvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.

The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard", or Good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as Fairy/Fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Giuseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the Explosion of a genre.

9780691153384 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691153388 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2011040188

016035147 Uk


Fairy tales--History and criticism.
Fairy tales--Social aspects.

GR550 / .Z59 2012

398.209