Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
Zipes traces how fairy tales were shaped, sanitised and weaponised as they passed through the centuries.
Jack Zipes argues that fairy tales are not innocent survivals from a folk past but contested territory, rewritten in every era to carry the values of whoever was telling them, from Perrault’s court through the Grimms to Disney. Sharp and often combative, it changed how scholars read the form. Guillermo del Toro recommends it for tracking the emergence and transformation of fairy tales through the centuries.
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Tracks the emergence and transformation of fairy tales through the centuries.
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