For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing
cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories
delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these
stories become so powerful and why?
In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of
the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the
twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers
Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The
Happy Prince or Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes
shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to
articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic
preferences within particular social contexts. Above all, he
demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the
civilizing process-the way it imparts values, norms, and aesthetic
taste to children and adults.
This second edition of one of Jack Zipes's best-loved books
includes a new preface and two new chapters on J.M. Barrie's Peter
Pan and E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
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