Quotes by Jack Zipes - Page 1

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
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Roles
Storyteller
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Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
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Girl
Sweetest
Teeth
Tongue
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If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
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Structure
Transformation
Wonder
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Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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Tales
Edition
Good Deal
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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Fairy
Museums
Tales
Commercials
Fairy Tales
References
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Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
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Conquer
Fairy Tale
Mean
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Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
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Clothes
Etc
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Perfume
Shampoo
Shoes
Commercial
Drinks
Magical
Qualities
Tale
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It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.
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Certain
Fairy Tale
Once Upon A Time
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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Bridges
Cities
Collaboration
Minneapolis
Neighborhood
Program
Storytelling
Theatre
Founded
Twin
Elementary
Schools
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What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
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Development
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Huge
Influence
Very
Had
Clearly
Consider
Cultures
Greeks
Huge Influence
Myths
Romans
See
Tale
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Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.
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Ancient
Fabric
Narrative
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
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Conflict
Contemporary
Dominating
Evil
Fairy
Focus
Tales
Women Are
Fairy Tales
Films
Heck
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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Bedtime
Borrowed
Creatures
Fairy
Involving
Tales
Fairy Tales
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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Attitude
Changed
Decided
Editing
Produce
Tales
Adult
Led
Primarily
Published
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The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.
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Community
Compassion
Struggle
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
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Collections
Division
Excluded
Literature
Tales
Violence
Exist
Earlier
Intended
Occur
Protecting
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Fairytale
Genre
Irresistible
Myth
Simple
Stories
Tall
Anecdote
Legend
Particularly
Origin
Recent
Tale
Tried
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Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
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Communication
Mean
People
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Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.
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Destiny
Done
Life Changing
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Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.
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Girl
Children
Loss
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What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.
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Children
Educational
Religious
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