Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization

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Publisher's Synopsis

Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale and shows how educated writers purposefully appropriated the oral folk tale in the eighteenth century and made it into a discourse about mores, values, and manners.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415905138
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 398.21
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 214
Weight: 340g
Height: 230mm
Width: 141mm
Spine width: 15mm