http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2008/06/29/jack-zipes-fairy-tales/ Interviewing the best of the Storytelling Community. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:24:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2008/06/29/jack-zipes-fairy-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-161740 Gina Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:17:02 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=113#comment-161740 This is a magnificent essay that is easy to read and greatly helped me with my psychology paper. This is a magnificent essay that is easy to read and greatly helped me with my psychology paper.

]]> http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2008/06/29/jack-zipes-fairy-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-157240 naphini Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:06:34 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=113#comment-157240 This essay is utterly fantastic! (No pun intended--well, ok it was intended). I haven't encountered a more succinct and clear advocation of clinging to our utopian dreams, the sense of home and desperate longing to get there. There is indeed more to fantasy than escapism, I suspect, and rude dismissals of fairy tales and other fantasies as such too easily disregard the value of that longing. Now I'll have to pick up and read Jack Zipes; I'm hooked. My question: can this hope and longing, presented to us in tales, be reconciled with a clear and honest vision of the real world -- honest like the nihilism or absurdism of Camus, who seeks to destroy hope as a barrier to our happiness? I must reconcile the two. Now... Away! This essay is utterly fantastic! (No pun intended–well, ok it was intended). I haven’t encountered a more succinct and clear advocation of clinging to our utopian dreams, the sense of home and desperate longing to get there. There is indeed more to fantasy than escapism, I suspect, and rude dismissals of fairy tales and other fantasies as such too easily disregard the value of that longing. Now I’ll have to pick up and read Jack Zipes; I’m hooked. My question: can this hope and longing, presented to us in tales, be reconciled with a clear and honest vision of the real world — honest like the nihilism or absurdism of Camus, who seeks to destroy hope as a barrier to our happiness? I must reconcile the two. Now… Away!

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