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UNINA9910461677903321 |
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Zipes Jack <1937-> |
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Titolo |
The irresistible fairy tale [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural and social history of a genre / / Jack Zipes |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
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1-280-49414-X |
9786613589378 |
1-4008-4182-8 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Fairy tales - History and criticism |
Fairy tales - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics -- 2. The Meaning of Fairy Tale within the Evolution of Culture -- 3. Remaking "Bluebeard," or Good- bye to Perrault -- 4. Witch as Fairy/Fairy as Witch: Unfathomable Baba Yagas -- 5. The Tales of Innocent Persecuted Heroines and Their Neglected Female Storytellers and Collectors -- 6. Giuseppe Pitrè and the Great Collectors of Folk Tales in the Nineteenth Century -- 7. Fairy- Tale Collisions, or the Explosion of a Genre -- Appendix A. Sensationalist Scholarship: A "New" History of Fairy Tales -- Appendix B. Reductionist Scholarship: A "New" Definition of the Fairy Tale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold--and why they became such an indelible and |
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infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's "Bluebeard"; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and why they evolved--and why we still use them to make meaning of our lives. |
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UNINA9910974848803321 |
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Autore |
Winter J. M |
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Remembering war : the Great War between memory and history in the twentieth century / / Jay Winter |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006 |
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9780300127522 (eBook) |
9780300127522 |
0300127529 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
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World War, 1914-1918 |
Collective memory |
War and society |
Civilization, Modern - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-329) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: War, |
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Memory, Remembrance -- Part One: War and Remembrance -- Part Two: Practices of Remembrance -- Part Three: Theaters of Memory -- Part Four: The Memory Boom and the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"-film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole. |
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