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Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. By Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2006. 332 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations.
In an ambitious and interesting outing, Jack Zipes moves beyond his previous work theorizing the fairy-tale genre as "classical tales ... consciously and subconsciously reproduced largely in print by a cultural industry that favors patriarchal and reactionary notions of gender, ethnicity, behavior, and social class" (2). In the opening chapter, Zipes asks whether there may be internal and external elements of fairy tales that account for both how and why the genre spread and persists, and how and why certain tales loom large as popular favorites.
Toward this end, Zipes postulates human reception and reproduction of fairy tales as a behavior governed by evolutionary forces. He casts the genre of fairy tales as a kind of species and individual tales as viruslike entities. He employs a theoretical construct...
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