Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, and: When Dreams Come True: Fairy Tales and Their Tradition (review)

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Reviewed by: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, and: When Dreams Come True: Fairy Tales and Their Tradition Deborah Stevenson Zipes, Jack Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2006254p Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-415-97669-5$95.00 Paper ed. ISBN 978-0-415-97670-1$25.95 Zipes, Jack When Dreams Come True: Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2007322p illus. with photographs Paper ed. ISBN 978-0-415-98006-2$95.00 Much has happened since the first editions of both these titles, Fairy Tales first appearing in 1983 and When Dreams Come True in 1999. Renowned scholar Zipes has therefore returned to these well-known works and given them both an overhaul and additional material (two chapters in the first book plus an updated bibliography, and four essays in the second). The former is one of the key works of fairy-tale scholarship in our time, and the latter contains essays from a variety of titles to which readers might not have independent access, so their updates are likely to prove worthwhile to those interested in folktales and folktale-based fiction. Copyright © 2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois