Once upon a Time There Was Truth – or, Why We Need Fairy Tales - Zipes Jack

Essays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy talesFairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the conflicts in our hearts are literalized in the world around us. The living, vibrant, democratic genre of the fairy tale draws stories from people and places all over the globe, and spreads them just as broadly. Yet in a world exhausted by war, famine, climate devastation, and political strife, are these tales... Zobrazit více