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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion:

The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilisation
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Psychology Press, 1991 - Fiction - 214 pages
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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Review: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization

User Review  - Kate - Goodreads

The introduction is a stultifying morass of subject-specific technical jargon; thankfully, Zipes eases up some in the following chapters. The biographical aspects were the most interesting part of the ... Read full review

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

User Review  - Danelley - Goodreads

an interesting read and lots of historical context. You can tell this author did his research, although you may not agree with a lot of his conclusions. Read full review

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