Jack David Zipes is a retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject of fairy tales, their linguistic roots, and argued that they have a "socialization function". 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 neo-Marxist critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Zipes enjoys using droll titles for his works like Don't Bet on the Prince and The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Ridinghood. He completed a PhD in comparative literature at Columbia University. Zipes taught at various institutions before heading German language studies at the University of Minnesota. He has retranslation of the complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Series
Books
The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm, Volume 1
1817
Arabian Nights
The Marvels And Wonders Of The Thousand And One Nights.
800
The Arabian Nights
More Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights, Volume 2 of 2
1999
Happily Ever After
Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry
1754
Buried Treasures
The Power of Political Fairy Tales
2023
Why Fairy Tales Stick
The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre
2006
Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
2011
Hans Christian Andersen
The Misunderstood Storyteller
2005
The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
1983
Sticks and Stones
The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter
2002
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
1983
Don't Bet on the Prince
1986
Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
1994
Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment
Classic French Fairy Tales
1989
The Enchanted Screen
The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films
2010
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
2003
Breaking the Magic Spell
Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
1979
Grimm Legacies
The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
2014
The Brothers Grimm
From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
1988
The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales
From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang
2013
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
2012
Tales of Wonder
Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards
2017
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
2000
Relentless Progress
The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
2008
Creative Storytelling
Building Community/Changing Lives
1995
