Breaking the Magic Spell : : Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
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Introductory fairy tales -- Once there was a time : an introduction to the history and ideology of folk and fairy tales -- Might makes right : the politics of folk and fairy tales -- The revolutionary rise of the romantic fairy tale in Germany -- The instrumentalization of fantasy : fairy tales, the culture industry and mass media -- The utopian function of fairy tales and fantasy : Ernst Bloch the Marxist and J.R.R. Tolkien the Catholic -- On the use and abuse of folk and fairy tales with children : Bruno Bettelheim's moralistic magic wand -- The radical morality of rats, fairies, wizards and ogres : taking children's literature seriously.
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PUBLISHED
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0813190304
9780813190303
SUBJECTS
Tales -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- History and criticism.