Breaking the Magic Spell
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the my
278 pages, 10 editions
English edition · First published 1979 by University Press of Kentucky · ISBN 9780813170305
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Editions
10 editions
English
- Breaking the Magic Spell · University Press of Kentucky · 2002 · ISBN 9780813170305 This page
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · University Press of Kentucky · 2002 · ISBN 9781283071789
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · University Press of Kentucky · 2002 · ISBN 9786613071781
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · University Press of Kentucky · 2002 · ISBN 9780813190303
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · University Press of Kentucky · 2002 · ISBN 9780813137803
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · Methuen · 1984 · ISBN 9780416010015
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · Routledge · 1979 · ISBN 9780415907194
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · Heinemann · 1979 · ISBN 9780435829865
- Breaking the magic spell · Heinemann · 1979 · ISBN 9780435829858
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales · University of Texas Press · 1979 · ISBN 9780292707252
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