Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a by Jack Zipes PDF

By Jack Zipes

In his most recent ebook, fairy stories specialist Jack Zipes explores the query of why a few fairy stories "work" and others do not, why the fairy story is uniquely able to getting lower than the surface of tradition and staying there. Why, in different phrases, fairy stories "stick." lengthy an recommend of the fairy story as a significant style with vast social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes right here makes his most powerful case for the assumption of the fairy story not only as a suite of news for kids yet a profoundly very important genre.


Why Fairy stories Stick contains chapters at the heritage and thought of the style, by means of case stories of recognized stories (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), via a precis bankruptcy at the challenging nature of conventional storytelling within the twenty-first century.

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