Jack Zipes

When Dreams Came True

Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition explores the social life of the fairy tale from its beginnnings to today, and includes a new preface and two new chapters on Peter Pan and The Nutcracker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780415980067
• ISBN-10: 0415980062
• Artikelnr.: 22781725

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 2007 edition Preface to the 1999 Edition 1. Spells of
Enchantment: An Overview of the History of Fairy Tales 2. The Rise of the
French Fairy Tale and the Decline of France 3. The Splendor of the Arabian
Nights 4. Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm 5. The "Merry" Dance of
the Nutcracker: Discovering the World Through Fairy Tales 6. I'm Hans
Christian Andersen 7. The Flowering of the Fairy Tale in Victorian England
8. Oscar Wilde's Tales of Illumination 9. Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as
Tragi-Comic Fairy Tale 10. Frank Stockton, American Pioneer of Fairy Tales
11. L. Frank Baum and the Utopian Spirit of Oz 12. Revisiting J.M. Barrie's
Peter and Wendy and Neverland 13. Herman Hesse's Fairy Tales and the
Pursuit of Home Bibliography Index