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Tag Archives: academic literature
Jack Zipes’s When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. Over the past fifteen years, Jack Zipes has edited, as well as written commentary for, a variety of collections of fairy tales. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition is a collection … Continue reading
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Jack Zipes’s Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. Jack Zipes is one of the most noted collectors of, and commentators on, fairy tales. In Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives, Zipes writes about his activities as a storyteller outside the universities, where he … Continue reading
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Jack Zipes’s Utopian Tales From Weimar, and Hermann Hesse’s The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse, edited and translated by Jack Zipes
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. I hesitate to choose any nation to be the nation of fairy tales. However, if I had to make a list, Germany, with its early 19th-century outpouring of tales, most notably by The Brothers Grimm, … Continue reading
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Jack Zipes’s Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. I am not, I suspect, the intended audience for Jack Zipes’s Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. Zipes is a solidly on the political left, bemoaning the capitalist culture industry, especially … Continue reading
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