It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since. — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. — Jack Zipes Copy Share
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which a narrator/author… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation. — Jack Zipes Copy Share
