The irresistible fairy tale : the cultural and social history of a genre /
Jack Zipes.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
- xvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.
The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard", or Good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as Fairy/Fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Giuseppe Pitrè and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the Explosion of a genre.