Background
Zipes, Jack David was born on June 7, 1937 in New York City. Son of Phillip Paul and Celia (Lefkow) Zipes.
( Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know th...)
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 between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts--as scholars and civil servants--toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in a fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, and part social history, The Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.
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( Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale ...)
Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale and shows how educated writers purposefully appropriated the oral folk tale in the eighteenth century and made it into a discourse about mores, values, and manners.
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(Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful...)
Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of community for students, teachers and parents while extolling storytelling as animation, subversion, and self-discovery.
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( The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cu...)
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of 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 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? How were fairy tales shaped by the changes in European society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Zipes examines famous writers of fairy tales such as Charles Perrault, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and L.Frank Baum and considers the extraordinary impact of Walt Disney on the genre as a fairy tale filmmaker.
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(The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural ...)
The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. This work shows that fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture.
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(A turn-of-the-century Jew undergoes a series of disfiguri...)
A turn-of-the-century Jew undergoes a series of disfiguring operations that transform him into a "European". Oskar Panizza's chilling story "The Operated Jew" (1893) mingles loathing with compassion for its title character. Thirty years later, Panizza's tale was answered by "Mynona", (Salomo Friedlaender) an urban German Jew who turned the story's tables in "The Operated Goy" (1922). Jack Zipes translates these two stories into English and provides an extensive introduction as well as bibliographic essays that recover these two writers, placing their often bizarre tales within the history of modern anti-Semitism. Panizza and Mynona were both haunted and persecuted by religious and racist fanaticism in Germany. Taken together, these writers form a dialectical image, the operated Jew/German, a figure that in turn casts its shadow on our present, illustrating why we devastate our bodies in quest of purity and perfection. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of literature and modern German history.
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(This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 l...)
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 mystical elements of the stories. He examines a range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Ernst Bloch, Tolkien, Bettelheim, and J.K. Rowling to demonstrate the continuing symbiotic relationship between folklore and literature.
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( Political "fairy tales" by progressive Weimar activists...)
Political "fairy tales" by progressive Weimar activists Deliberately transforming traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, political activists wrote the stories in this collection for progressive youth groups during the years of the German Weimar Republic, 1919 to 1933. Noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes has edited and translated these thirty-two tales by sixteen Weimar authors, who include such notable writers as Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Maria Graf, and Hermynia Zur Mühlen. Zipes has also provided an introduction, notes and bibliography, period illustrations, and concise biographies of the authors, many of whom were later killed, persecuted, or forced into exile by the Nazis.
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(Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a...)
Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behaviour. In the seven essays in this collection, Zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them and the way they are used in mass media culture today. He looks at how a wide range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, the German romantics, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilde and Tolkien used fairy tales as he assesses their enduring importance.
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critic educator translator writer
Zipes, Jack David was born on June 7, 1937 in New York City. Son of Phillip Paul and Celia (Lefkow) Zipes.
Bachelor, Dartmouth College, 1959. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1965.
Administrative assistant Institute for Teachers of English, Columbia University, New York City, 1964-1965; instructor Amerika Institut, U. Munich, 1966-1967; assistant professor, New York University, 1967-1972; from associate professor to professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1972-1986; professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1986-1989; professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, since 1989. Visiting professor theater department Freie Universität, Berlin, 1978-1979, German department Columbia University, 1984, folklore research center Columbia Teacher's College, 1986.
( Political "fairy tales" by progressive Weimar activists...)
( Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale ...)
(This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 l...)
(Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a...)
(Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful...)
(A turn-of-the-century Jew undergoes a series of disfiguri...)
( The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cu...)
(The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cult...)
(The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural ...)
( Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know th...)
(Versions of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood in Sociocu...)
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Member American Association Teachers German, American Folklore Association, International Board on Books for Young People, Modern Language Association (executive council since 1991), Children's Literature Association (board directors 1985-1988), Brüder- Grim Gesellschaff.
Married Carol Harvey Dines, March 10, 1984. 1 child, Hanna.