When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

by Jack Zipes

Overview

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135266196
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature, his most recent books include Why Fairy Tales Stick, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, Beautiful Angiola, and The Robber with the Witch's Head, all published by Routledge.

Table of Contents

Spells of Enchantment: An Overview of the History of Fairy Tales     1
The Rise of the French Fairy Tale and the Decline of France     33
The Splendor of the Arabian Nights     53
Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm     65
The "Merry" Dance of the Nutcracker: Discovering the World through Fairy Tales     85
I'm Hans Christian Andersen     109
The Flowering of the Fairy Tale in Victorian England     143
Oscar Wilde's Tales of Illumination     167
Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as Tragic-Comic Fairy Tale     175
Frank Stockton, American Pioneer of Fairy Tales     187
L. Frank Baum and the Utopian Spirit of Oz     195
Revisiting J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and Neverland     219
Hermann Hesse's Fairy Tales and the Pursuit of Home     239
Bibliography     255
Index     285

Editorial Reviews

"A fascinating social history of the uses and abuses to which fairy tales have been put in the course of their transformation from tales told orally by adults to adults into written (and frequently homogenized) bedtime stories parents read to the children. Zipes persuasively argues that fairy tales keep alive our ‘longing for a better world that can be created out of our dreams and actions’."—New York Times Book Review

"Zipes has forged a career out of brilliant and subversive analyses of fairy tales...Intelligent and thoughtful fun, without deconstructing the land of Faerie into dust and ashes."—Booklist

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