Breaking the magic spell
radical theories of folk and fairy tales
About this book
"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
- economic forecasting
- fairy tales
- fairy tales, history and criticism
- folk literature
- folklore
- folklore, theory, methods, etc.
- forecasting
- history and criticism
- research
- social sciences
- tales
- tales, history and criticism