The Irresistible Fairy Tale the Cultural and Social History of a Genre
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Princeton University Press
2012
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- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics; 2 The Meaning of Fairy Tale within the Evolution of Culture; 3 Remaking "Bluebeard," or Good-bye to Perrault; 4 Witch as Fairy/Fairy as Witch: Unfathomable Baba Yagas; 5 The Tales of Innocent Persecuted Heroines and Their Neglected Female Storytellers and Collectors; 6 Giuseppe Pitrè and the Great Collectors of Folk Tales in the Nineteenth Century; 7 Fairy-Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre
- Appendix A: Sensationalist Scholarship: A "New" History of Fairy TalesAppendix B: Reductionist Scholarship: A "New" Definition of the Fairy Tale; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
- If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold--and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, ant