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This audiobook explores the historical go up of the literary fairy tale as a genre in the later 17th century. In his examinations of key classical fairy stories, Zipes traces their particular metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that disclose their ideological human relationships to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our daily culture and shapers of the identities. In this lively work, Jack port Zipes explores the historical go up of the literary fairy tale as a genre in the later 17th century and examines the ideological relationship of typical fairy stories to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most mythic articulation in the us. Consequently Zipes considers Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American man individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American misconceptions, and Robert Bly's Flat iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy stories. This book will change forever just how we look at the fairy tales of the youth.

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