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Tale Quotes by Jack Zipes
- Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we…
- The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to…
- If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
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- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
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