The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039397636X ISBN 13: 9780393976366

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Synopsis

The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition is indispensable for students of fairy tales.

The tales―116 in all―are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre’s reigning expert. Twenty illustrations accompany the texts.

"Criticism" includes seven important assessments of different aspects of the fairy tale tradition, written by W. G. Waters, Benedetto Croce, Lewis Seifert, Patricia Hannon, Harry Velten, Siegfried Neumann, and Jack Zipes.

Brief biographies of the storytellers and a Selected Bibliography are included.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Zipes (Ph.D. Columbia University) is a Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work on children’s literature, he is an award-winning storyteller in public schools and has worked with various children’s theaters. His major publications include Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children’s Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter (2000), Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry (1997), Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale (1994), The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World (1988), and Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization (1983).

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 039397636X
• ISBN 13: 9780393976366
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1008
• Editor: Zipes Jack