The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions) Book

Jack Zipes aims to disprove conventional wisdom regarding the origins of the Grimm fairy tales, which holds that the Grimms collected their tales from the oral tradition of peasants. He argues that the Grimms took most of their tales from literary sources, rewriting them again and again.Read More

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  • Foyles

    The tales—116 in all—are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre’s reigning expert. Twenty illustrations accompany the texts."Criticism" includes seven important assessments of different aspects of the fairy tale tradition, written by W. G. Waters, Benedetto Croce, Lewis Seifert, Patricia Hannon, Harry Velten, Siegfried Neumann, and Jack Zipes.Brief biographies of the storytellers and a Selected Bibliography are included.

  • Blackwell

    Jack Zipes holds that the Grimms collected their tales from the oral traditions of peasants. This is simply not so. Rather, the Grimms took most of their tales from literary sources, rewriting them again and again. These tales are based on a great...

  • BookDepository

    The Great Fairy Tale Tradition : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393976366 : 039397636X : 24 Jan 2001 : The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition is indispensable for students of fairy tales.

  • 039397636X
  • 9780393976366
  • J Zipes
  • 24 January 2001
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 1008
  • annotated edition
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