02969nam 2200649Ia 450 991078246010332120230120202312.01-135-85387-81-281-90002-897866119000210-203-92756-7(CKB)1000000000578493(EBL)367695(OCoLC)476202852(SSID)ssj0000342278(PQKBManifestationID)11243169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342278(PQKBWorkID)10284915(PQKB)10927010(MiAaPQ)EBC367695(Au-PeEL)EBL367695(CaPaEBR)ebr10267149(CaONFJC)MIL190002(OCoLC)437236239(EXLCZ)99100000000057849320080527d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRelentless progress[electronic resource] the reconfiguration of children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling /Jack ZipesNew York Routledge20091 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-99064-5 0-415-99063-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.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 WorldNotesBibliography; Index;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.ChildrenBooks and readingChildren's literatureHistory and criticismChildren's literatureSocial aspectsChildrenBooks and reading.Children's literatureHistory and criticism.Children's literatureSocial aspects.809.8928217.91bclZipes Jack1937-192521MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782460103321Relentless progress3675403UNINA