Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

PublisherMethuen
Copyright HolderJack Zipes
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationNew York
This Edition Published1984
Copyright1979
Pages / Font201 pages
ISBN 100-416-01001-6
Library of Congress Classification NumberGR74.Z56 1984
Dewey Decimal Classification Number398.2'1'094
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number84-1076
Price$9.95
ChaptersAcknowledgments Preface 1 Once There Was a Time: An Introduction to the History and Ideology of Folk and Fairy Tales 2 Might Makes Right – The Politics of Folk and Fairy Tales 3 The Revolutionary Rise of the Romantic Fairy Tale in Germany 4 The Instrumentalization of Fantasy: Fairy Tales, the Culture Industry and Mass Media 5 The Utopian Function of Fairy Tales and Fantasy: Ernst Bloch the Marxist and J.R.R. Tolkien the Catholic 6 On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand Notes Index
NotesPrinted in the United States of America
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