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Italian Popular Tales
Author: Thomas Frederick Crane Author: Jack Zipes Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 398.20945 EAN: 9780195219296 ISBN: 0195219295 Number Of Pages: 392 Publication Date: 2003-06-26 [... more]
$49.99
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Fairy Tales And Fables From Weimar Days
Who says fairy tales are just for kids?: This small collection of fairy tales written by different authors in Germany in the 1920s is an intriguing study of modern life. These writers used an older literary form prominent in their shared German heritage [... more]
$14.95
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern ...
Book Description: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the romantic myth of the brothers as wandering scholars, who gathered "authentic& [... more]
$19.95
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Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's ...
Zipes misses the point about Harry Potter: While I admire Zipes work in general, I think he's missed the point about Harry Potter. Zipes remarks that Harry is a classic boy scout, a straight arrow (...). He complains that the novels follow a tedious and [... more]
$50.00
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the ...
Helpful and Intriguing View of Tales and Culture: I really disagree with the previous review of this book. Zipes doesn't distort the tales meaning at all. Instead he avoids the facile, obvious surface reading, and goes deeper into the many varied [... more]
$42.95
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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their ...
Interesting, shame about the proof-reading: Zipes is always interesting, thought provoking and he knows a lot, though his essays always seem to promise more than they deliver. These essays range widely across the field of his interests. Having said that, [... more]
$29.95
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Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
Stories for Teaching: Zipes' book provides a good introduction to various genres of storytelling. What is especially interesting about this book is that he provides a description of a program in which he uses storytelling as a way of teaching within [... more]
$27.95
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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale (Clark Lectures)
Excellent.: Zipes' qualifications for writing about this subject are impeccable, and his years of teaching show easily here. Chapters include stuff about traditional fairy tales, sure, but also writeups on Disney animation (hint: he's not real thrilled [... more]
$22.00
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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and ...
Great Overview of Nonstandard Folktale Theories: I really love Jack Zipes, and this is one of his helpful books for folklorists, and amateurs who enjoy reading fairy tales. It presents a variety of 'radical' theories about the meaning and construction of [... more]
$22.50
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern ...
Book Description: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the romantic myth of the brothers as wandering scholars, who gathered "authentic& [... more]
$90.95
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm (Complete ...
Colorful and Easy to Read: Growing up, the only fairy tales that I have ever known were those that have been sanitized -- no wonder I have always thought fairy tales are boring. My reading of this book has completely changed my views! What color, what [... more]
$6.95
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Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's ...
Zipes misses the point about Harry Potter: While I admire Zipes work in general, I think he's missed the point about Harry Potter. Zipes remarks that Harry is a classic boy scout, a straight arrow (...). He complains that the novels follow a tedious and [... more]
$27.95
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