Jack Zipes

Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Cinderella” would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions. These narrative gems, newly translated and brought together in one beautiful book, are accompanied by sumptuous new illustrations from award-winning artist Andrea Dezsö. From “The Frog King” to “The Golden Key,” wondrous worlds unfold—heroes and heroines are rewarded, weaker animals triumph over the strong, and simple bumpkins prove themselves not so simple after all. Esteemed fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes offers accessible translations that retain the spare description and engaging storytelling style of the originals. Indeed, this is what makes the tales from the 1812 and 1815 editions unique—they reflect diverse voices, rooted in oral traditions, that are absent from the Grimms' later, more embellished collections of tales. Zipes's introduction gives important historical context, and the book includes the Grimms' prefaces and notes. A delight to read, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm presents these peerless stories to a whole new generation of readers.

The Complete First Edition

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

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, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's "Bluebeard"; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and why they evolved--and why we still use them to make meaning of our lives.

The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

The Irresistible Fairy Tale

Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film is the definitive study of the symbiotic relationship between the film industry and the United States armed services. Since the first edition was published nearly two decades ago, the nation has experienced several wars, both on the battlefield and in movie theatres and living rooms at home. Now author Lawrence Suid has extensively revised and expanded his classic history of the mutual exploitation of the film industry and the military, exploring how Hollywood has reflected and effected changes in America's image of its armed services. This significantly expanded edition has been brought completely up to date and includes many of the most recent war films, such as Saving Private Ryan, U-571, Pearl Harbor, and Windtalkers. Lawrence H. Suid, a military historian, is the author of several books and has recently appeared on The History Channel, Turner Classic Movies, and CNN. He lives in Greenbelt, Maryland. Click here for his website.

Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Breaking the Magic Spell

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Karen Russell

Natalie Frank

The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann

Wounded Storyteller

Gathers literary fairy tales by authors from Apuleius, Charles Perrault, Wilhelm Grimm, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to James Thurber, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, and Jane Yolen

The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Spells of Enchantment

A collection of modern fairy tales told from a feminist perspective

Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England

Don't Bet on the Prince

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German edition, as well as narratives uncovered in the brothers’ letters and papers. Truly the most comprehensive translation to date, this critically acclaimed edition recaptures the fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be: rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with folklore and song. One of the world’s experts on children’s literature, Jack Zipes is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books on folklore and fairy tales.

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

" 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 oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.

Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

Johnny Gruelle

A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources.

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

L. Frank Baum

Flame Tree Studio

W. W. Denslow

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Little Red Riding Hood and other classic French fairy tales

Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester

Владимир Яковлевич Пропп

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work "The Russian Folktale."

The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp

A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards from the late 19th century to the present, this volume presents a fascinating look at how key scenes of fairy tales have been rendered over time, suggesting a rethinking and reliving of the tales through the years. Full color. 12 x 12.

Retelling Fairy Tales Through Picture Postcards

Tales of Wonder

"The Magician's Heart" (1912) -- "The Two Magicians" (1916) -- "The Forest Dweller" (1917) -- "Red Magic" (1921) -- "The Mysterious Book" (1921) -- "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1923) -- "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1926) -- "The Mistress of Magic" (1926) -- "The Two Magicians" (1937) -- "The High Sheriff and His Servant" (1958) -- "The Man and His Son" (1962) -- "The Magician and His Disciple" (1997) -- PART III. KRABAT TALES -- "About an Evil Man in Groß-Särchen" (1837) -- "Krabat: A Legend from Folklore" (1858) -- "Krabat" (1865) -- "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, I" (1880 -- Recorded by Hendrich Jordan) -- "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, II" (1880 -- Recorded by Alexander von Rabenau) -- "The Story about Krabat" (1885) -- "The Wendish Faust Legend" (1900) -- "Krabat" (1959) -- Biographies of Authors, Editors, Collectors, and Translators -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Selected and Chronological List of Sorcerer's Apprentice Tales -- Index

An Anthology of Magical Tales

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves

Victorian Fairy Tales

Reviewer Series Editor Jack Zipes

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

When Dreams Came True

Highlights the lives and contributions of the Grimm brothers along with an interpretation of their fairy tales and a discussion of their legacy in Germany.

From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World, Second Edition

The Brothers Grimm

Kim Addonizio

Francine Prose

Norman Lock

Donna Tartt

Aimee Bender

Kate Bernheimer

Joshua Beckman

Matthew Rohrer

Mary Caponegro

Julie Choffel

Monica Fambrough

Sarah Hannah

Brent Hendricks

Stacey Richter

Marjorie Sandor

Kiki Smith

Sarah Veglahn

Wendy Weitman

Contains poetry, fiction, and essays that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse.

The Blue Issue

Fairy Tale Review

The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer famous for The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Red Shoes and many other now classic tales. Jack Zipes broadens our understanding of Andersen by exploring the relation of the Danish writer's work to the development of literature and of the fairy tale in particular. Based on thirty-five years of researching and writing on Andersen, this new book is a welcome reconsideration of Andersen's place and of his reception in English-speaking countries and on film.

The Misunderstood Storyteller

Hans Christian Andersen

Os contos de fada tem sido uma das influências culturais e sociais mais importantes na vida das crianças ao longo dos últimos séculos. Mas até este Os Contos de Fadas e a Arte da Subversão: O Gênero Clássico Para Crianças e o Processo Civilizador ser lançado em 1983, pouca atenção tinha sido dada à maneira como os escritores e coletores de contos utilizaram esse gênero tradicional para moldar a vida das crianças – seu comportamento, seus valores e a relação com a sociedade. Como Jack Zipes mostra de forma convincente, os contos de fada sempre constituíram um discurso poderoso, útil para moldar ou desestabilizar atitudes e comportamentos dentro da cultura. A edição brasileira se baseia na atual edição americana, revisada inteiramente pelo autor que adicionou uma nova introdução, atualizando este título clássico.

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