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Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their linguistic roots, and argued that they have a "socialization function". According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society." His arguments are avowedly based on the neo-Marxist critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

Zipes enjoys using droll titles for his works like Don't Bet on the Prince and The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Ridinghood.

He completed a PhD in comparative literature at Columbia University. Zipes taught at various institutions before heading German language studies at the University of Minnesota. He has retranslation of the complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

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Total Books: 61
Aesops Fables
Aesops Fables (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140623857
ISBN-10: 014062385X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Beauties beasts and enchantment Classic French fairy tales
Beauties Beasts and Enchantment Classic French Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780453006934
ISBN-10: 0453006930
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Breaking the Magic Spell Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
Breaking the Magic Spell Radical Theories of Folk  Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitr
The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm
The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780553371017
ISBN-10: 0553371010
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm II
Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm II (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780553212518
ISBN-10: 0553212516
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Creative Storytelling Building Community Changing Lives
Creative Storytelling Building Community Changing Lives (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780415912716
ISBN-10: 0415912717
Genre: Nonfiction
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Don't Bet on the Prince Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
The Enchanted Screen The Unknown History of FairyTale Films
Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale [The Thomas D. Clark Lectures : 1993] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780813108346
ISBN-10: 0813108349
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780415976695
ISBN-10: 0415976693
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization
The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang
Grimm Legacies The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen The Misunderstood Storyteller
Happily Ever After Fairy Tales Children and the Culture Industry
The Irresistible Fairy Tale The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Kinder und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999/2000
Kinder Und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999/2000 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783476017918
ISBN-10: 3476017915
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Les contes de fes et l'art de la subversion
Les Contes De Fes Et L'art De La Subversion (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782228140508
ISBN-10: 2228140503
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