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SUMMARY:Hyping the Grimms' Tales - Professor Emeritus Jack Zipes
DTSTART:20131023T160000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nIn the year 2012 there were many celebrations of
  the 200th anniversary of the first edition of the Grimms' fairy tales\, p
 ublished under the title Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausm
 ärchen). There were conferences\, books\, papers\, and a mass-mediated hy
 pe of the Grimms' fairy tales that have frequently been turned into trivia
 l pulp for the masses by the globalized culture industry.\n Yet\, perhaps 
 the Grimms are to blame for the hype. There is a fascinating\, somewhat ir
 onic tale that needs to be told here\, for the Grimms\, aided by their fir
 st English translator Edgar Taylor\, helped pave the way for the modern hy
 ping of the fairy tales. And it all began with the Grimms' total commitmen
 t to salvaging the genuine essence of folk tales\, their oral authenticity
  and historical significance. Moreover\, children were not the designated 
 audience of their books when they began their project of collecting tales.
  Yet\, the Grimms were gradually persuaded to appeal to them until publish
 ers and readers dismissed the Grimms' original intentions and branded thei
 r collection as children's literature. In his lecture\, Professor Zipes wi
 ll endeavour to explain how and why this transformation came about.\n\n*Bi
 o*\n\nJack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literatur
 e at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work\, he i
 s an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children’s
  theaters in Europe and the United States. Some of his major publications 
 include Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
  (1979)\, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (rev. ed. 2006)\, The Brot
 hers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World (1988)\, Hans Chris
 tian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller (2005)\, and Why Fairy Tales 
 Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (2006). He has also edited T
 he Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000)\, and The Great Fairy Tale Tradi
 tion (2001) and is editor-in-chief of the series Oddly Modern Fairy Tales 
 published by Princeton University Press. Most recently he has published Th
 e Enchanted Screen: the Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (2010) and The
  Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (2012
 ).
LOCATION:Room Boulind 8 and 9\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, H
 ills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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