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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition.

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. By Jack Zipes. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 322 pp.

This revised and expanded edition of a book first published in 1999 aims to "provide a sociohistorical framework for the study of the classical tradition of the literary fairy tale in western society" (x). It consists of an overview of the development of the literary fairy-tale tradition, followed by twelve essays on fairy-tale writers ranging from the seventeenth-century French salon precieuses to Herman Hesse. These essays also cover Charles Perrault, Antoine Galland (and the European reception of the Arabian Nights), the Brothers Grimm, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, various Edwardian and Victorian authors with an emphasis on Oscar Wilde, Carlo Collodi and his Pinocchio, Frank Stockton, L. Frank Baum and his utopian realm of Oz, and J. M. Barrie's cycle of adventures in Neverland. Although all of the...

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