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Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days: Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition Paperback - 2018

by Jack Zipes (Editor)


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Presents a fascinating and accessible collection edited and translated by the world's leading expert on fairy tales
Updates the previous edition with a revised introduction, 3 new tales and 60 new illustrations

Includes translations of work by a range of noted Weimar writers including Kurt Schwitters

From the rear cover

This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation of public institutions, numerous gifted writers such as Berta Lask, Kurt Schwitters, Hermynia zur Mhlen, Oskar Maria Graf, Bruno Schnlank, and Joachim Ringelnatz responded to the need for hope among the common people by creating fairy tales and fables that offered a new and critical vision of social conditions. Though many of their tales deal with the grim situation of common people and their apparent helplessness, they are founded on the principle of hope. This revised edition includes over 50 illustrations by contemporary international artists who reveal how similar the Weimar conditions were to the conditions in which we presently live. In this respect, the Weimar fairy tales andfables have not lost their spirit and significance.

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  • Title Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days: Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition
  • Author Jack Zipes (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2018-02-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9783319692746 / 3319692747
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.27 x 8.19 x 0.53 in (15.93 x 20.80 x 1.35 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.2

About the author

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, USA. Some of his recent publications include: Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (2006), The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (2010), and Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales (2014).
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