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The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre / Jack Zipes.

Author/creator Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionxvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard", or Good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as Fairy/Fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Giuseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the Explosion of a genre.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011040188
ISBN9780691153384 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0691153388 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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