Grimm Legacies (ebook)

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"With this book Zipes positions [the Grimm] legacy among the forces of gods, dwarfs, samurai, cowboys, fairies, and other mutants better than does any other living author--again revealing the fairy tale as a genre of enlightenment as well as escape."--Choice

Winner of the 2015 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago

"[F]ascinating."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post

"In this landmark work of fairy-tale scholarship, Jack Zipes comes to grips with the multiple legacies of the Brothers Grimm in German and Anglo-American cultures. With nuance and inexhaustible insight, Zipes shows how mythmaking, marketing, hype, Americanization, the appeal of collective action, and utopian longing have sustained 'the magic spell' of the Grimms' tales throughout two centuries of use and abuse. Anyone seeking to understand the popularity of the Grimms' fairy tales or their richly diverse reception will do well to begin here."--Donald Haase, editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales

"Magisterial and magnificent, Grimm Legacies decodes the intention, reception, and impact of the Grimms' fairy tales as they conquered Germany, the Anglo-American world, and, by way of multifaceted literary and filmic adaptations, the globe. Based on impeccable and informed research, this interpretive book challenges and delights readers with its innovative and detailed investigation of the many legacies of the globalized Grimms' tales."--Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont

"A comprehensive look at the origins, evolution, and reception of the Grimms’ tales, laid out with the kind of breadth and depth that only Zipes’s deep and productive engagements with fairy tales in all their vibrant incarnations could produce. Grimm Legacies is rich and informative, and continually finds new territory to explore and fresh ground to cover."--Maria Tatar, author of The Annotated Brothers Grimm

"Jack Zipes is perhaps the foremost American scholar of the Brothers Grimm--in this book his encyclopedic knowledge of all things Grimm shines through. Zipes portrays the Grimms’ way of thinking from when they started and developed their collection, to their very deaths. This book’s scholarly details are impeccable."--James Dow, professor emeritus of German, Iowa State University

"The salience of authorial presence along with the personalized intensity of Zipes's critiques, suggests that this fine scholarly publication exploring the legacy of two nineteenth-century brothers may also secondarily express a solicitude for the legacy of a remarkable modem-day scholar."--Rebecca Anderson, Children's Literature Association Quarterly

"Clear, precise, discreet, and exceedingly well informed about scholarship on the Grimms."--Willis Goth Regier, World Literature Today0List of Figures ix
Preface: Legacies and Cultural Heritage xi
Introduction The Vibrant Body of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales, Which Do Not Belong to the Grimms 1
Chapter One German Popular Stories as Revolutionary Book 33
Chapter Two Hyping the Grimms' Fairy Tales 58
Chapter Three Americanization of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales: Twists and Turns of History 78
Chapter Four Two Hundred Years after Once Upon a Time: The Legacy of the Brothers Grimm and Their Tales in Germany 109
Chapter Five How Superheroes Made Their Way into the World of Fairy Tales: The Appeal of Cooperation and Collective Action from the Greek Myths to the Grimms' Tales and Beyond 131
Chapter Six The Grimmness of Contemporary Fairy Tales: Exploring the Legacy of the Brothers Grimm in the Twenty-First Century 152
Epilogue A Curious Legacy: Ernst Bloch's Enlightened View of the Fairy Tale and Utopian Longing, or Why the Grimms' Tales Will Always Be Relevant 187
Appendix: "About Pincaruolo's Good Feat," by Giovanni Sercambi 197
Notes 205
Bibliography 219
Filmography 247
Index 255