Jack David Zipes is een gepensioneerd professor in de Duitse literatuur die zich uitgebreid verdiept in de wereld van sprookjes. Zijn werk richt zich op hun linguïstische wortels en bepleit hun cruciale "socialisatiefunctie". Zipes stelt dat sprookjes niet alleen compensatie bieden, maar ook openbaring, waarbij de beste onder hen de discrepanties tussen waarheid en leugen in onze samenleving blootleggen, gebaseerd op de neomarxistische kritische theorie van de Frankfurter Schule. Zijn wetenschap wordt gekenmerkt door een scherpe, vaak geestige benadering van de analyse van deze blijvende verhalen.
Exploring the intersections of cultural narratives, this collection features Jack Zipes's essays on fairy tales, Jewish studies, and German philosophy. It delves into the complexities of identity and tradition within the context of folklore and poetry, offering a critical examination of how these elements shape cultural discourse. Zipes's work sheds light on the broader implications of these themes in understanding the Jewish and German questions in literature and society.
The stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have become part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of the more than two hundred enchanting characters included in this volume. The tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Illustrated by Josef Schari / Commentary by Joseph Campbell Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks
of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presents a
provocative theory about why fairy tales were created and retold - and why
they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around
the world.
Dramatic, full-color artwork highlights nine classic fairy tales by Oscar Wilde that include such poignant favorites as "The Selfish Giant" and "The Happy Prince," collected in this breathtaking new Signature edition.
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature celebrates the richness and variety of over 350 years of literary works for children. This groundbreaking anthology includes 170 authors and illustrators of alphabets and animal fables, fairy tales and fantasy, picture books and nursery verse, among many other genres. Here readers will find beloved works by Charles Perrault, Lewis Carroll, J. M. Barrie, L. M. Montgomery, and Dr. Seuss along with historical classics—The New-England Primer and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses—and major voices from the multicultural and global contemporary scene. Over 40 longer complete works and over 400 illustrations, including 60 in color, enhance this comprehensive and visually rich anthology.With introductions that offer fresh insights into the cultural contexts of children's literature and childhood itself over four centuries, author headnotes, annotations, bibliographies, and a timeline, The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature illuminates a literary tradition whose power to instruct and delight is both centuries old and startlingly new.
This collection features 116 thematically grouped fairy tales, introduced and annotated by expert Jack Zipes. It includes twenty illustrations and a "Criticism" section with seven assessments of the fairy tale tradition. Additionally, brief biographies of the storytellers and a Selected Bibliography are provided.
Probally one the original "story within a story" book. Arabian nights is a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a price who has sworn he will kill any girl who marries him. Her clever stories keep him from murdering her night after night. This is where classic fairy tales such as Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Theives come from as well as moral tales and metaphors.The use of djins, magic and Eastern splendour makes Arabian Nights dazzle. A must read and a perfect counter point to western fairy tales such as Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm.
Oude fabels in een nieuw jasje. Ayano Imai toont de tijdloze en populaire fabels van Aesopus vanuit een ongewoon perspectief. Van het bekende verhaal over de schildpad en de haas tot het boeiende verhaal over het hert bij de vijver, allemaal krijgen ze een unieke charme door de fantastische, surrealistische illustraties met bijzondere details.
The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights, Volume I
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Bawdy and exotic, Arabian Nights , features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced into the West in 1704, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This modern edition, based on Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation, restores the lushness of the original Arabic. Here are the famous adventures of Sinbad, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp." Here too are less familiar stories, such as "Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma," a delightful early version of The Taming of the Shrew , and "The Wily Dalilah and her Daughter Zaynab," a hilarious tale about two crafty women who put an entire city of men in their place. Intricate and imaginative, these stories-within-stories told over a thousand and one nights continue to captivate readers as they have for centuries.
