TY - BOOK AU - Zipes,Jack David TI - Fairy tales and the art of subversion: the classical genre for children and the process of civilization SN - 0415905133 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Children KW - Books and reading KW - Fairy tales KW - History and criticism KW - Moral development KW - Socialization N1 - First published: London : Heinemann Educational, 1983; Includes bibliographical references and index; CONTENTS: Acknowledgement -- Fairy tale discourse: Towards a social history of the genre -- Setting standards for civilization through fairy tales: Charles Perrault and his associations -- Who's afraid of the brother's Grimm? Socialization and politicization through fairy tales -- Hans Christain Andersen and the discourse of the dominated -- Inverting and subverting the world with hope: The fairy tales of George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde and L. Frank Baum -- The fight over fairy-tale discourse: Family, friction, and socialization in the Weimar republic and Nazi Germany -- The liberating potential of the fantastic in contemporary fairy tales for children -- Bibliography -- Index. ER -