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The irresistible fairy tale

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onto the foreground of the western society's interest and his age-long research contributed to the
evolution of the genre's study from the formalistic approach to its socio-cultural re-contextualization.

SUMMARY PASSAGE 2

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Jack Zipes has always followed unswervingly the same dialectical materialist interpretative course
concerning fairy tales. Ever since his first work: Fairy Tale. The Art of Subversion (1982), he has
challenged a century of scholarship on the origins, psychology and universal meanings of fairy tales
and held to his view, according to which the tales should be placed into the actual reality that created
them (see: To conclude, the book capitalizes on Zipes' erudition and profound knowledge of his
subject.
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Ross [4] makes a quite intriguing suggestion, saying that "an expert's time might be better spent
observing media with which people are more actively engaged" inferring to rap music and to the
absence of research connecting fairy tale motifs with it, we won't agree with his view that "following
the genre's incarnations into libraries and art galleries is a down-the-rabbit-hole endeavor". Zipes'
work brings to light unknown aspects of fairy tales' history and uses, which can fire the interest of
other researchers for further explorations towards the expansion of the studies into more down-to
earth fields. In the same vein, his focus on the almost ignored fabulists and artists that better embody
the revolutionary spirit of fable-telling, or on the fairy tale characters -Baba Yaga, peasant girls and
witches-that he sheds light on, breathes new life into the fairy tale's stereotyped structures and
interpretations.