Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales Friday, August 7 2009.

• Breaking the Magic Spell, first published in 1979, is considered a landmark of the field, and this revised, expanded, and updated edition will be invaluable to scholars and students. Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behavior. In seven essays collected in Breaking the Magic Spell, Zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them, and the way they are used in mass media culture today. Zipes looks at how a wide range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, the German romantics, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilde, and Tolkien, used fairy tales as he assesses their enduring importance.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jack David Zipes: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Jack Zipes: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales Friday, July 17 2009.

• To begin with a true story told in fairy-tale manner: Once upon a time the famous physicist Albert Einstein was confronted by an overly concerned woman who sought advice on how to raise her small son to become a successful scientist.