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Tag Archives: fairy tales
Jack Zipes’s The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
One of the prerogatives of being the editor of The Green Man Review is having first dibs on almost anything that comes in. I don’t usually do that as it wouldn’t be fair to our staff, but The Oxford Companion … Continue reading
Jack Zipes’s The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood comprises 38 variations on the Red Riding Hood theme. These stories, poems, and plays have been collected by professor and author Jack Zipes to illustrate his contention that the Little Red … Continue reading
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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 Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller
Hans Christian Andersen is quite arguably the best-known writer of fairy tales in the world, or at least that part of the world that derives from European traditions. Jack Zipes argues that he is also the most misunderstood, an argument … 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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Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete
Jean Cocteau’s sumptuous black and white retelling of this beloved fairy tale is inarguably the finest version committed to celluloid. Drawing heavily from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s 18th century written version, Cocteau wrote La Belle et la Bete’s story and … Continue reading
Book Review: Four titles by folklorist Dr. Jeana Jorgensen
Dr. Jeana Jorgensen has been writing about folklore, fairy tales, and sex for ten years. Often these topics intersect in her work. Recently she has assembled that decade’s worth of academic papers and blog posts about this material and released … Continue reading
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Various authors and editors: An omnibus review of British Folk Tales
Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher’s Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (University of Chicago Press, 1992) Katherine Briggs’s Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts; British Folktales; and Folktales of England (Pantheon, 1979), (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), … Continue reading
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