Quotes by : Jack D. Zipes

The very name of the genre itself - fairy tale - originated during this time, for the French writers....

Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends....

Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is....

As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve....

It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and....

Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different....

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain....

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the....

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is....