Jack Zipes




Jack Zipes

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avg rating: 4.14 | 1,083 ratings | 109 reviews | 55 distinct works | 4 fans
Don't Bet on the Prince: Conte... Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.10 — 145 ratings — published 1986
6 editions
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Spells of Enchantment: The Won... Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.20 — 45 ratings — published 1991
2 editions
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The Great Fairy Tale Tradition... The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions)
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.15 — 34 ratings — published 2000
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Beauty and the Beast: And Othe... Beauty and the Beast: And Other Classic French Fairy Tales
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 1997
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Arabian Nights Volume I: 1 Arabian Nights Volume I: 1
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 3.94 — 31 ratings — published 2000
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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radi... Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 3.49 — 35 ratings — published 1979
5 editions
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Sub... Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.31 — 26 ratings — published 1983
10 editions
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The Trials and Tribulations of... The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, Second Edition
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 1983
3 editions
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy... The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published 2000
3 editions
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The Complete Fairy Tales of th... The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition
by Jack Zipes
avg rating 4.33 — 18 ratings — published 2003
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"The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors."
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