Relentless Progress The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling

Name: Relentless Progress
Author: Jack Zipes

Auteur: Jack Zipes

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jack Zipes Jack Zipes

Co-auteur: Jack David Zipes

Engels
Hardcover
9780415990639
05 december 2008
189 pagina's

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In Relentless Progress, Zipes looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. Among the many topics explored here are the dumbing down of books for children, the marketing of childhood, the changing shape of feminist fairy tales, and why American and British children aren’t exposed to more non-western fairy tales.

Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales and children's literature. In this book, Zipes argues that, despite a dangerous reconfiguration of children as consumers in the civilizing process, children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling possess a uniquely powerful (even fantastic)capacity to resist the "relentless progress" of negative trends in culture. He also argues that these tales and stories may lose their power if they are too diluted by commercialism and merchandising.

Stories have been used for centuries as a way to teach children (and adults) how to see the world, as well as their place within it. In Relentless Progress, Zipes looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. Among the many topics explored here are the dumbing down of books for children, the marketing of childhood, the changing shape of feminist fairy tales, and why American and British children aren’t exposed to more non-western fairy tales. From picture books to graphic novels, from children’s films to video games, from Grimm’s fairy tales to the multimedia Harry Potter phenomenon, Zipes demonstrates that while children’s stories have changed greatly in recent years, much about these stories have remained the same—despite their contemporary, high-tech repackaging.

Relentless Progress offers remarkable insight into why classic folklore and fairy tales should remain an important part of the lives of children in today’s digital culture.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 december 2008
Aantal pagina's: 189
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Jack Zipes
Tweede Auteur: Jack Zipes
Co Auteur: Jack David Zipes
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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Personage: Harry Potter

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Editie: 1
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 165 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 165 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 408 g

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EAN: 9780415990639

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

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Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Cultuur

Literatuurwetenschap

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Taal: Engels
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