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  • BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT
    JACK ZIPES
    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT: CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES Edited and translated by Jack Zipes A beautiful new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated into English by renowned writer and authority on fairy tales, Jack Zipes. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty, Puss In Boots, Bluebeard, and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tales in this...
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    34,03 €

  • Home is Not Sweet or How the Wellikans and the Twins Found Truth
    Jack Zipes
    In the course of this novella, Nexus keeps transforming himself and becomes more brutal. Neither the Twins nor the Wellikans are killers, and they must somehow find a way to end the ruthless activities of the dictator Nexus.Fortunately, they manage to find the most appropriate punishment for all the crimes that Nexus has committed.It is not clear where the Twins and the Wellika...
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    6,59 €

  • Lost and Found or How the Wellikans Helped the Twins Avoid a Catastrophe
    Jack Zipes
    The twin witches, Anja and Zack, are left stunned when they discover that Nexus, the sinister dictator, has escaped death and been reborn as an even more dangerous monster bent on world domination.Together with their allies, the Wellikans, the twins embark on a series of adventures, standing in Nexus’s way at every turn. Yet each victory comes at a cost, and it is far from cert...
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    5,56 €

  • Remembering the Jewish and German Questions
    Jack Zipes
    Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s insightful essays and presentations on fairy tales, Jewish studies, philosophy, drama, and the German public sphere. ...
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    77,80 €

  • The Wrath of Peace or How the Wellikans Saved the World
    Jack Zipes
    This captivating story follows the journey of twins Anja and Zack, two young witches who are separated from their parents after a ruthless dictator named Nexus takes control of the world. Guided by a mysterious, elderly witch, they set out to find the Wellikans, a hidden people living on a dark and secretive island. With her wisdom and support, Anja and Zack reach the island an...
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    7,56 €

  • Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
    Jack Zipes
    Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually becom...
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    47,27 €

  • Ernst Bloch
    Jack Zipes
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United States from 1938 to 1940. It was first published, however, in East Germany in the 1950s after he had returned to Eu...
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    103,59 €

  • Ernst Bloch
    Jack Zipes
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United States from 1938 to 1940. It was first published, however, in East Germany in the 1950s after he had returned to Eu...
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    48,27 €

  • BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT
    Jack Zipes
    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES  Edited and translated by Jack Zipes   A wonderful new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated into English by renowned writer and authority on fairy tales, Jack Zipes. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty, Puss In Boots, Bluebeard, and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tales in thi...
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    34,03 €

  • Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
    Jack Zipes
    This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation of public institutions, numerous gifted writers such as Berta Lask, Kurt S...
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    41,84 €

  • Grimm Legacies
    Jack Zipes
    In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world-the fairy tale.Folklorists Jacob...
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    40,32 €

  • The Robber with a Witch’s Head
    Jack Zipes
    The Robber with the Witch’s Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller’s dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes. ...
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    93,65 €

  • Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales
    Kurt Schwitters / Jack Zipes
    Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first...
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    22,45 €

  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale
    Jack Zipes
    A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world’s leading authoritiesIf 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...
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    30,76 €

  • BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT
    JACK ZIPES
    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT: CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES A beautiful new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated into English by renowned writer and authority on fairy tales, Jack Zipes. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty, Puss In Boots, Bluebeard, and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tales in this amazing book. There are many stori...
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    30,73 €

  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
    Jack Zipes
    As Jack Zipes convincingly shows in this classic work, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. How and why did certain authors try to influence children or social images of children? ...
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    40,57 €

  • The Enchanted Screen
    Jack Zipes
    The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author. With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks at the extensive, illustrious life of fairy tales and cinema, but he also reminds ...
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    97,00 €

  • Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments
    Jack Zipes
    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT: CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES A new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated by renowned writer and authority on fairy tales, Jack Zipes. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tales in this amazing book. Includes illustrations from fairy tale collections. ’Terrific......
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    34,04 €

  • Relentless Progress
    Jack Zipes
    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. ...
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    73,46 €

  • When Dreams Came True
    Jack Zipes
    This second edition explores the social life of the fairy tale from its beginnnings to today, and includes a new preface and two new chapters on Peter Pan and The Nutcracker. ...
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    73,05 €

  • Why Fairy Tales Stick
    Jack Zipes
     Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales 'work' and others don’t; why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales 'stick.' Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the ...
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    74,11 €

  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
    Jack Zipes
    The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children’s lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children’s lives - their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convi...
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    73,17 €

  • Hans Christian Andersen
    Jack Zipes
    The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer famous for The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Red Shoes and many other now classic tales. Jack Zipes broadens our understanding of Andersen by exploring t...
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    74,87 €

  • Speaking Out
    Jack Zipes
    In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children’s imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years.For the past four years,...
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    72,89 €

  • The Brothers Grimm
    Jack Zipes
    Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the romantic myth of the brothers as wandering scholars, who gathered 'authentic' tales from the peasantry. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise as well and new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction betw...
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    66,23 €

  • Sticks and Stones
    Jack Zipes
    Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones , Jack Zipes explores children’s literature, from the grissly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful Harry Potter books, and argues that despite common assumptions about children’s books, our investment in children is paradoxically curtailing their freedom and creativity. Sticks and Stone...
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    74,70 €

  • Happily Ever After
    Jack Zipes
    First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes’s latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between different cultures this book addresses Zipes’s ongoing concern with the fairy tale- its impact on children and adults, its role in the socialisation of children- as well as the future of the fairy tale on the big(and little) screen....
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    73,56 €

  • The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
    Jack Zipes
    Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm to Anne Sexton, Zipes uses the tales to explore questions of Western culture, sexism and politics. ...
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    73,78 €

  • Victorian Fairy Tales
    Jack Zipes
    This is an irresistible and unique anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period, including Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbitt. ...
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    73,82 €