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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse more books like this

by Hermann Hesse, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

A collection a fairy tales, many containing a strong satirical edge, written for adults by the celebrated author of "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf".

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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition more books like this

by Johnny Gruelle (Illustrator), Professor Jack Zipes (Translator)

The brothers Grimm--Wilhelm and Jacob--devoted their lives to collecting these German legends, originally published in 1812 as CHILDREN'S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES. They include such classics as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behaviour. In the seven essays in this collection, Zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them and the way they ...

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Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale

Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale more books like this

by Sibylle Von Olfers, Sieglinde Schoen-Smith (Illustrator), Professor Jack Zipes (Translator)

As Spring approaches, Mother Earth wakes her sleepy children, deep below the earth, the children yawn and stretch. Soon their hands are busy, stitching new clothes in bright spring colours. The dust of the bumblebees, scrub the beetles and paint splendid new coats on the ladybirds. The children jubilantly emerge from the earth where they become ...

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Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English

Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor), Lissa Paul (Editor), Professor Lynne Vallone (Editor)

This new Norton Anthology traces the remarkable innovation and enduring pleasures of children's literature. It includes 170 authors and illustrators of alphabets and animal fables, fairy tales and fantasy, picture books and nursery verse, among many other genres.

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Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens more books like this

by James Matthew Barrie, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". His later role as flying boy hero was brought to the stage by Barrie in the beloved play "Peter Pan", which opened in 1904 and became the novel "Peter and ...

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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm more books like this

by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Jack Zipes (Translator), Wilhelm Karl Grimm (Photographer)

The brothers Grimm--Wilhelm and Jacob--devoted their lives to collecting these German legends, originally published in 1812 as CHILDREN'S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES. They include such classics as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

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The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights

The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights more books like this

by Anonymous, Jack Zipes (Editor), Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

Bawdy and exotic, "Arabian Nights, " feature the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of "The Thousand and ...

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes, Zipes Jack

Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film. As a result of analyzing the historical trajectory of storytelling and the literary fairy tale, the essays in this volume move from the 16th ...

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Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture more books like this

by Various, Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

Zipes brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, giving readers a sense of the history of the genre and its evolution. Includes more than 60 tales by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Voltaire, Goethe, Hawthorne, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, and more. Illustrated.

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Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside more books like this

by Douglas P Zipes

This comprehensive reference provides the most authoritative and up-to-date information on basic and clinical cardiac electrophysiology-from cell to bedside. Written by world-renowned experts in the field, it covers a full range of topics, from fundamental explanations of currents and channels, through the theoretical and experimental bases of ...

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Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural change since the 1960s in area of gender ...

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Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World more books like this

by Kathleen Ragan (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

Humans of all eras and cultures have lived with fear: of becoming jaguar prey, of being besieged by Vikings or of nuclear holocaust. For millennia, huddled around campfires and hearths, we have created folktales to help us transform this fear into action, into solutions, into hope. Inspired by the residual fear and need for stories of resilience ...

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Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature more books like this

by Julia L Mickenberg (Editor), Philip Nel (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Foreword by)

In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries 'Strike down the wall!' and liberates itself from the 'egg state'. In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it.Rather than teaching children to obey authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer, ...

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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as F.T.-Pa more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late 17th century, also the ideological relationship to domination and oppression in western society.

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The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

With over 100 fairy tales from around the world--many appearing in an English translation for the first time--this anthology features familiar tales like those from the Brothers Grimm, alongside many little-known stories. Features, in addition, author biographies and critical essays

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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? Until now we have lacked a social history of the fairy tale to frame our understanding of the role it plays in our lives. ...

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Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Noted translator and scholar of the Brothers Grimm, author Zipes turns the prevailing assumptions about children's literature into grist for a sure-to-be-controversial thesis. Zipes contend that most books for children, from 19th-century moral tales to Harry Potter, inhibit, rather than cultivate, a child's creativity and intelligence.

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Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor), Stephane Poulin (Illustrator)

Always provocative, frequently hilarious, and at times deeply poignant, these enchanting fairy tales--selected by children's literature expert Jack Zipes--are as marvelous to read aloud with a child as they are to enjoy in solitude. Magnificent, original full-page and spot illustrations by Stephane Poulin enhance the text.

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Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault more books like this

by Angela Carter, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely ...

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The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz more books like this

by L Frank Baum, Professor Jack Zipes, W W Denslow (Illustrator)

The complete and unabridged original story of Dorothy and her companions the tin woodman, the scarecrow and the cowardly lion, and her enchanting journey along the yellow brick road in search of the wonderful wizard which gave rise to the famous movie.

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Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine more books like this

by Peter Libby

Dr. Braunwald's masterwork returns bringing you the definitive guidance you need to overcome any challenge in clinical cardiology today, using the best approaches available! Hundreds of world authorities, many of them new to this edition, synthesize all of the recent developments that are revolutionizing practice from the newest findings in ...

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Bruce's Bakery Cookbook more books like this

by Bruce Zipes

The owner of Bruce's Bakery in Manhattan shares the recipes that have made his establishment famous, including Danish Tea Cake, Cream Puffs, Coconut Macaroons, and a delectable assortment of muffins.

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The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm more books like this

by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Professor Jack Zipes (Translator), Johnny Gruelle (Illustrator)

The brothers Grimm--Wilhelm and Jacob--devoted their lives to collecting these German legends, originally published in 1812 as CHILDREN'S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES. They include such classics as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

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The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays more books like this

by Ernst Bloch, Professor Jack Zipes (Translator), Frank Mecklenburg (Translator)

The aesthetic essays of the philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) belong to the rich tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin.

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