Jack David Zipes

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1983

When is a wolf a wolf, and when is he a rapist? In the new, expanded edition of his controversial and groundbreaking work, Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. In tracing the evolution of the story, the author takes on those questions which other authors have shied away from; violation, rape, male fantasies and manipulation. This book collects 35 of the best versions of the story, from the first tellings as a folktale, to its written renderings by such authors as the Brothers Grimm, Walter De La Mare, James Thurber, Alphonse Daudet, Anne Sexton, Olga Broumas and Angela Carter, providing a detailed social history of the literary Red Riding Hood. Zipes uses these tales to explore questions of Western culture, sexism, and politics and in a new epilogue examines the illustrations used in past versions for their "take on the tale". A new preface and an expanded bibliography have also been included for the second edition. As with Jack Zipes' other works, The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood will cause the reader to question just how harmless our fairy tales are. Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. He is the author of Breaking the Magic Spell, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion and Don't Bet on the Prince, all available from Routledge. He is the translator of the complete Grimm fairy tales.

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"In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Prince or Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic preferences within particular social contexts. Above all, he demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process : the way it imparts values, norms, and aesthetic taste to children and adults. This second edition of one of Jack Zipes' best-loved books includes a new preface and two new chapters on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."--from the Publisher.