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Fairy Tales by Amanda Slack-Smith (Curated by); Sophie Hopmeier (Curated by); Holly Ringland (Contribution by); Marina Warner (Contribution by); Jack Zipes (Contribution by)
Category: Art
Fairy Tales celebrates art and film that explores this evolving narrative form and the fascination it has commanded for centuries.Drawing on popular themes of magic, enchantment and transformation, the paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, film clips, props and costumes draw not only on well-k ...Show more
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack D. Zipes
Category: Non-Fiction
In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the m ...Show more
Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic French Fairy Tales by ZIPES JACK
Category: Classics
'Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth'. Arranged marriages, trials to win the princess, children lost in the woods, the transformation of humans into beasts, charms and curses, evil stepsisters, tests of love and courage - these are the motifs that to ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm; Jack Zipes (Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPES. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a m ...Show more
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales by Juwen Zhang (Editor, Edited and Translated by); Jack Zipes (Foreword by)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twen ...Show more
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes
Category: Picture Books | Series: Norton Critical Editions
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, Bened ...Show more
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Jack Zipes; Andrea Dezsö
Category: Classics
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majo ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
Category: History | Series: Oxford Companions
In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers w ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Flame Tree Studio (Created by); L. Frank Baum; Jack Zipes (Foreword by); W. W. Denslow (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
L. Frank Baum's work is universally celebrated and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is known worldwide, in particular for its 1939 musical film adaptation starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. Published in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz depicted the young farm girl Dorothy and her pet dog Toto, who are swept aw ...Show more
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