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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782460103321

Autore

Zipes Jack <1937->

Titolo

Relentless progress [[electronic resource] ] : the reconfiguration of children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling / / Jack Zipes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-85387-8

1-281-90002-8

9786611900021

0-203-92756-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Classificazione

17.91

Disciplina

809.89282

Soggetti

Children - Books and reading

Children's literature - History and criticism

Children's literature - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 The Reconfiguration of Children and Children's Literature in the Culture Industry; 2 Misreading Children and the Fate of the Book; 3 Why Fantasy Matters Too Much; 4 The Multicultural Contradictions of International Children's Literature: Three Complaints and Three Wishes; 5 What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing: Applying Memetics to Folk and Fairy Tales; 6 And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After: The Feminist Fairy Tale after Forty Years of Fighting for Survival; 7 Storytelling as Spectacle in the Globalized World

NotesBibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In Relentless Progress, Zipes looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. Among the many topics explored here are the dumbing down of books for children, the marketing of childhood, the changing shape of feminist fairy tales, and why American and British children aren't exposed to more non-western fairy tales.