Jack Zipes

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Jack David Zipes (born June 7, 1937 in New York City ) is an American literary scholar, fairytale researcher and translator.

Life

Jack Zipes studied political science at Dartmouth College (BA, 1959) and English and comparative literature at Columbia University (MA, 1960). After studying at the universities of Munich and Tübingen, Zipes received his doctorate in 1965 with a dissertation on the romantic hero in German and American literature at Columbia University. 1966/67 he was a lecturer again at the University of Munich and was then employed as a lecturer from 1967 to 1972 at New York University , from 1972 to 1986 at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and from 1986 to 1989 at the University of Florida . In 1989 he became professor of German at the University of Minnesota , where he also retired. He received visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and at Columbia University.

Zipes has received several scholarships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1988–89) and a National Endowment for the Humanities (1998–1999). He was awarded the International Grimm Prize in 1999 and received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2019 . Zipes is a member of the Brothers Grimm Society and served on the board of the Modern Language Association from 1991 to 1994 . Zipes was co-editor of New German Critique magazine .

After Zipes had translated the so-called edition of the last hand of the Grimms Fairy Tales (from 1857) into English, he immediately started translating the first edition (from 1812 and 1815), which he completed in 2014. He also translated Laura Gonzenbach's collection of Sicilian fairy tales in German .

Fonts (selection)

  • The great refusal: Studies of the romantic hero in German and American literature . Bad Homburg: Athenaeum, 1970
  • Steppenwolf and Everyman, a translation of essays by Hans Mayer with an introductory essay on Mayer . New York: Crowell, 1971
  • Romanticism in a critical perspective by Marianne Thalmann , a collection of essays edited and introduced with an essay on Thalmann . Heidelberg: Stiehm, 1976.
  • Political Plays for Children: The Grips-Theater of Berlin, a translation of three plays with an introduction about the history of the Grips Theater . St. Louis: Telos, 1976.
  • Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales . 1979
  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization . London: Heinemann, 1983
  • Little Red Riding Hood's Pleasure and Sorrow: Biography of a European Fairy Tale . Frankfurt / M. : Ullstein, 1985 ISBN 978-3-548-30170-9 (first 1982)
  • with Anson Rabinbach (ed.): Germans and Jews since the Holocaust . New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986
  • Don't Bet on the Prince. Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England , New York: Methuen, 1986
  • The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm . New York: Bantam, 1987
  • Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales . 1989
  • The Operated Jew: Two Tales of Anti-Semitism . Translation and commented. New York: Routledge, 1991
  • Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale . 1994
  • (Ed.): American fairy tales . Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1994
  • The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse . Translation and introduction. New York: Bantam Books, 1995
  • Creative Storytelling: Building Community / Changing Lives . New York: Routledge, 1995
  • The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari , translated with an introduction and notes. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1996
  • Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry . 1997
  • Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter . 2000
  • The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World . Revised and Expanded Second Edition. New York: Palgrave, 2002. This edition includes a new preface and a new final chapter, “The Struggle for the Grimms 'Throne: The legacy of the Grimms' Tales in East and West Germany since 1945.” 2002
  • Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach . New York: Routledge, 2003.
  • Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children . 2004
  • Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre . 2006
  • The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films . 2011
  • Literature and Literary Theory: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion . 2011
  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre . 2012
  • (Ed.): The most beautiful French fairy tales . Berlin: Insel Verlag, 2017 ISBN 978-3-458-36299-9

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SURNAME Zipes, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zipes, Jack David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City