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

ISBN-13: 9780415990639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str.

Jack David Zipes;Zipes Jack

Opis

Author Jack Zipes argues that, despite the consumerisation of children, children's literature, fairy tales and storytelling possess a uniquely powerful capacity to resist the relentless progress of negative trends in culture. He also argues that these tales risk losing their power if they are diluted by commercialism and merchandising.

O autorze

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.