Jack Zipes

Reviewer Series Editor Jack Zipes

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

When Dreams Came True

Jack David Zipes

The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition isindispensable for students of fairy tales.

From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm : Texts, Criticism

The Great Fairy Tale Tradition

Who were the Brothers Grimm? Despite the enormous influence the Grimms have had on our culture, they themselves remain little known and poorly understood. In "The Brothers Grimm", Jack Zipes sets the record straight. Bringing to bear his own expertise as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts -- as scholars and civil servants -- toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political and personal elements of his subjects' lives, Zipes rescues the Grimms form sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in a fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical reassessment, and part social history, "The Brothers Grimm" gives us back a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world. -- From publisher's description.

Reviewer Series Editor Jack Zipes

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