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" Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and... read more
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In his endeavor to establish the origins of the fairy tale for children, Peter Brooks stated that "when at the end of the seventeenth century Perrault writes down and publishes tales which had been told for indeterminate centuries- and would continue to be told, and would be collected in varying versions by the Grimm Brothers and other modern folklorists-he seems to be performing for children;s literature what must have been effected for literature long before: that is, he is creating a literature where before there had been myth and folklore.
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- Jack David Zipes (Author)
- Jack Zipes
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