Comments on: Jack Zipes – Are fairy tales still useful to Children?

By: Essay: Art and the Abject Fairy Tale | artyms

Essay: Art and the Abject Fairy Tale | artyms — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:17:12 +0000

[...] [6]. Zipes, Jack, 2008, Are Fairy Tales Still Useful to Children? The Art of Storytelling Show [online article/audio] http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2008/06/29/jack-zipes-fairy-tales/ [...]

By: Mostafa

Mostafa — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:14:49 +0000

Thanks very much for this great conversation as well as the whole website!

By: ellen

ellen — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:45:56 +0000

Thank you so much.

All best
Ellen

By: Brother Wolf

Brother Wolf — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:19:10 +0000

This Essay was submitted by the author to this website – so yes it was written for this website. However the understanding between the Author and the Publisher was that he was allowed to use work that was previously published as long as he had retained the right to do so with the previous publishers. In short he was encouraged to use parts of previous works in this work, but welcome to submit what ever he thought was relavent.

All the Best

Eric Wolf

By: ellen

ellen — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:13:14 +0000

Can I ask for a reference for this essay, ie not the url for this page but where is it published? If it was written for the website then obviously not, but if it is from a book of his or a journal article would someone let me know?
Thanks

By: Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:16:30 +0000

I always have something new to learn from Zipes. I’ve never stopped telling fairy tales to my daughter, and I continue to advise other parents to do the same.

By: Los niños que no eran como niños « Blog y Rapunzell

Los niños que no eran como niños « Blog y Rapunzell — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:30:42 +0000

[...] que lo retiré. Sin embargo, se quedó en mi recuerdo hasta el momento en que lo he necesitado. Para eso están los cuentos ¿no? Escrito en Antropología casera, Educación, El sudor de mi frente, Yo y mis [...]

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:17:02 +0000

This is a magnificent essay that is easy to read and greatly helped me with my psychology paper.

By: naphini

naphini — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:06:34 +0000

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!