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Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling book cover

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Relentless Progress The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling

By Jack Zipes Copyright 2009
208 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales and children's literature. In this book, Zipes argues that, despite a dangerous reconfiguration of... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. The Reconfiguration of Children and Children’s Literature in the Culture Industry

2. Misreading Children and the Fate of the Book

3. Why Fantasy Matters Too Much

4. The Multicultural Contradictions of International Children’s Literature: Three Complaints and Three Wishes

5. What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing: Applying Memetics to Folk and Fairy Tales

6. And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After: The Feminist Fairy Tale after Forty Years of Fighting for Survival

7. Storytelling as Spectacle in the Globalized World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature and culture, his most recent books include The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré, Why Fairy Tales Stick, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, Beautiful Angiola, and The Robber with the Witch's Head, all published by Routledge.

 

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