Relentless Progress
The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
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In Relentless Progress, Zipes looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. Among the many topics explored here are the dumbing down of books for children, the marketing of childhood, the changing shape of feminist fairy tales, and why American and British children aren’t exposed to more non-western fairy tales.
'Many of [the] short essays are quite fascinating.' - Art and Christianity
"I have come to realization that Jack Zipes is the Bob Dylan of children's literary criticism. Like Dylan, it is worth listening very carefully to what Zipes has to say." - Jan Susina, Illinois State University, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Fall 2009 Vol. 34 No. 3
'Many of [the] short essays are quite fascinating.' - Art and Christianity
Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature and culture, his most recent books include The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré, Why Fairy Tales Stick, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, Beautiful Angiola, and The Robber with the Witch's Head, all published by Routledge.