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SUMMARY:The Grimness of Contemporary Fairy Tales - Jack Zipes\,Leverhulme 
 Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nIt is virtually impossible to escape the Brother
 s Grimm and their fairy tales in the twenty-first century. Especially in t
 he western world\, their tales have infiltrated into our lives and in all 
 their different variants have become \ndominant in the field of fairy tale
 s. Though there were a few  parodies and unusual adaptations of the Grimms
 ’ tales in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century\, 
 it was not until Anne Sexton provocatively \nre-wrote twenty-five Grimm ta
 les in her book Transformations in 1971 that a new era\, sparked in part b
 y the feminist movement\, began that opened new perspectives on the Grimms
 ’ tales and brought about a tidal wave of \nexperimenting with the tales
  in literature\, theatre\, television\, ballet\, opera\, film\, storytelli
 ng\, and other cultural domains. Since then there have been numerous post-
 modern experiments that are difficult to “label” and interpret. In the
  twenty-first century they have appeared not only in Germany and English-s
 peaking countries but in most countries in the world. My \nresearch semina
 r will focus on the grimmness of contemporary tales\, poems\, novels\, and
  graphic books to discuss the peculiar appeal that the Grimms’ tales hav
 e for authors with diverse perspectives\, including Robert Coover\, Kate B
 ernheimer\, Kelly Link\, Adam Gidwitz\, and others. I shall allude to othe
 r authors and non-literary works in an endeavor to understand what makes t
 he Grimm tales so essential to these writers and the development of the fa
 iry-tale genre.\n\n*Bio*\n\nJack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and
  comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his
  scholarly work\, he is an \nactive storyteller in public schools and has 
 worked with children's theaters in Europe and the United States. Some of h
 is major publications include Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories o
 f Folk and Fairy Tales (1979)\, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (rev
 . ed. 2006)\, The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern Wor
 ld (1988)\, Hans Christian \nAndersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller (2005
 )\, and Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (200
 6). He has also edited The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000)\, and Th
 e Great Fairy Tale Tradition (2001) and is editor-in-chief of the series O
 ddly Modern Fairy Tales published by Princeton University Press. Most rece
 ntly he has \npublished The Enchanted Screen: the Unknown History of Fairy
 -Tale Films (2010) and The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Socia
 l History of a Genre (2012).\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ\, room 
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