A feminist look at fairy tales including short stories. This book is split into three sections - tales for younger readers, tales for older readers, and criticism. The works have appeared in various sources elsewhere. Included in this collection are feminist working of Beaty and the Beast, a discu...
1906 - 1911 - I read this a while back and somehow forgot to write anything whatever about it, or mark it as read, or anything. I remember liking it; it was fairly dark, moved fast. Can't remember if I thought there were weird sexual undertones or was surprised to find there weren't.Humph. I hate wh...
The first three essays are interesting, even if the second and third essays are somewhat scattered. Also be warned, I discuss Kohl's points which some people will consider spoilers.I got this book because of the title essay, "Should We Burn Babar?", an essay that tackles the question of suitability...
The first three to four essays in this book are quite good. The last few are so-so. If you have read other work by Zipes, you can skip the chapter about Disney, for you have heard it before.However, the book is worth reading simply for its discussion about Beauty and the Beast as well as the Rumps...
Do you know this song:Two and Two is FourFour and Four is EightEight and Eight is SixteenSixteen and Sixteen is Thiry-TwoInch worm, Inch worm, measuring the marigolds If you do then you've mostly likely seen Hans Christen Andersen starring Danny Kaye. Kaye and Andersen only had two things in common...
I had only read a few short stories by Hesse before picking up this book. Some of the stories are shocking. I want to know, for instance, what Hesse has aganist women and veganitarians. Honestly, really, what did vegans every do to him?Most of the stories are excellent. My only complaint is the ...
I'm halfway through this. The main points I've gathered so far are: 1) children are indoctrinated with consumerism from day 1, children's literature is as much to blame as everything else; and 2) there is no such thing as true childrens literature. While I don't necessarily disagree with many of the...
This edition includes a good introduction by Jack Zipes that looks at how Carter's translation influences her and how she changes the morals at the end of the stories. If you loved Carters The Bloody Chamber then you have to read this to see how she was influenced by Perrault.
A BBC full-cast dramatisation of E.T.A. Hoffman's classic tale.From BBC Radio 7. First broadcast on BBC Radio 5, date unknown. 128kbps.Dramatised by Brian Sibley and starring the vocal talents of Tony Robinson, Edward Ardizzone, Eric Allen et al.
I read this entire thing...twice. Once when I was young and easily impressible (not quite sure why I chose to read this probably because it was a fat book and I seem drawn to those kind ) and then several years later. Some of these are extremely dark, creepy, odd, murderous, and downright depressing...
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