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Sto caricando le informazioni... When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition (Literary Studies)di Jack Zipes
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For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Prince or Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic preferences within particular social contexts. Above all, he demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process--the way it imparts values, norms, and aesthetic taste to children and adults. This second edition of one of Jack Zipes's best-loved books includes a new preface and two new chapters on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)398.209Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature History, geographic treatment, biographyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Useful for the history of tales that are popularly understood to be from the 'folk tradition', but which are actually derived from a literary source (e.g. 'Beauty and the Beast'), and for the contemporary state of the discussion among 'experts'; however, the overview format assumes the reader already knows the tales.
I take issue with his underlying assumption that the cynical, socially rebellious, and sometimes sadomasochistic French literary novels are somehow superior to their 'conventionalized' descendants (Disney is particularly derided, without evidence, as 'saccharine and sexist'; IMO the first three adaptations, in particular, are anything but).
The chapter on Hans Christian Andersen does contain detailed analyses of the underlying works, but is heavily dependent on theoretical psychology to justify making assumptions about Andersen's internal motivations (which doesn't mean the analysis is wrong, but it does require accepting the psych-tropes as meaningful).
Style: Generally readable by the layman, with some unavoidable jargon and references. ( )