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6 unusual facts about Jack Zipes


Bruno Bettelheim

Zipes, Jack: "On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand", in Zipes, Jack: Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1979.

Histoires ou contes du temps passé

Children's literature scholar Jack Zipes speculates that Perrault's fairy tales may have been written to be the last word in a decade-long literary quarrel.

Jack Zipes

He has translated the complete 1857 edition of fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Madame d'Aulnoy

Zipes, Jack When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, ISBN 0-415-92151-1

Puss in Boots

In Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion Jack Zipes notes that Perrault "sought to portray ideal types to reinforce the standards of the civilizing process set by upper-class French society".

The Donkey Prince

The illustrated version is currently out of print but the story itself can be found in "Don't Bet on the Prince" (1987) by Jack Zipes.



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