Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The Reconfiguration of Children and Children’s Literature in the Culture Industry
2. Misreading Children and the Fate of the Book
3. Why Fantasy Matters Too Much
4. The Multicultural Contradictions of International Children’s Literature: Three Complaints and Three Wishes
5. What Makes a Repulsive Frog So Appealing: Applying Memetics to Folk and Fairy Tales
6. And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After: The Feminist Fairy Tale after Forty Years of Fighting for Survival
7. Storytelling as Spectacle in the Globalized World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
University of Minnesota, USA
'Many of [the] short essays are quite fascinating.' - Art and
Christianity"I have come to realization that Jack Zipes is the Bob
Dylan of children's literary criticism. Like Dylan, it is worth
listening very carefully to what Zipes has to say." - Jan Susina,
Illinois State University, Children's Literature Association
Quarterly, Fall 2009 Vol. 34 No. 3
'Many of [the] short essays are quite fascinating.' - Art and
Christianity
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