Name Jack Zipes | ||
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Nominations Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies Edited works The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales Books The Irresistible Fairy Tale, Breaking the magic spell, When Dreams Come Tru, The Oxford Companion to Fairy T, Why Fairy Tales Stick Similar People Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Sander Gilman, L Frank Baum, Aesop | ||
Jack zipes utopian tendencies of oddly modern fairy tales
Jack David Zipes (born 1937) is an American academic who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society." His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution.
Contents
- Jack zipes utopian tendencies of oddly modern fairy tales
- harry potter the sorcerer s apprentice and memetic magic by jack zipes
- Education and positions
- References
harry potter the sorcerer s apprentice and memetic magic by jack zipes
Education and positions
Jack Zipes received a B.A. in political science from Dartmouth College in 1959 and an M.A. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1960. From there, Zipes studied at the University of Munich in 1962 and the University of Tübingen in 1963. He earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature (with a dissertation on the Romantic hero in German and American literature) from Columbia in 1965.
After teaching American literature at the University of Munich (1966-1967), Zipes taught German literature and drama, comparative folklore and literary theory (specializing in the Frankfurt School) at New York University (1967-1972), the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1972-1986) and the University of Florida (1986-1989) before moving to the department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, where he was department chair (1994-1998) and is currently professor emeritus of German. He has also held notable visiting professorships in the theater department of the Free University of Berlin (1978-1979) and the German department of Columbia University (1984). He has translated the complete 1857 edition of fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. As of October 19, 2014, he has finished translating the first edition of 1812 and 1815.