Table of Contents

Preface to the 2002 Edition Preface to the 1988 Edition Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm: A Reintroduction Biographical Sketch Origins and Reception of the Tales Dreams of a Better Bourgeois Life: The Psycho-Social Origins of the Tales Exploring Historical Paths From Odysseus to Tom Thumb and Other Cunning Heroes: Speculations about the Entrepreneurial Spirit The German Obsession with Fairy Tales Henri Pourrat and the Tradition of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm Recent Psychological Approaches with Some Questions about the Abuse of Children Semantic Shifts of Power in Folk and Fairy Tales: Cinderella and the Consequences Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale: The Immortality of Sleeping Beauty and Storytelling The Struggle for the Grimms' Throne: The Legacy of the Grimms' Tales in East and West Germany since 1945

Promotional Information

Jack Zipes' many book on fairy tales and folklore include "When Dreams Came True". He has also edited the "Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales" and is the translator and editor of "The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm". He has recently published "Unlikely History" with Palgrave Macmillan.

About the Author

JACK ZIPES is Professor of German and Director for the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota. His many books on fairy tales and folklore include When Dreams Came True. He has also edited the Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales and is the translator and editor of The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. He has recently published Unlikely History with Palgrave Macmillan. Zipes is the most well-known critic of children's literature and has a major following of his own.

Reviews

'Jack Zipes does a marvelous job of digging out the way the stories were set up. They often reflect the early traumas of loss and desolation suffered by the Grimm brothers and their redemption by hard work and luck.' - The Boston Globe 'Zipes' eloquent and persuasive scholarship is enough to recommend The Brothers Grimm, but it is his witty and trenchant readings of the tales that will delight even the most hardened anti-Grimm reader.' - The Globe and Mail