Remembering the Jewish and German Questions - Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes's insightful essays and presentations on fairy tales, Jewish studies, philosophy, drama, and the German public sphere.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Towards an Epidemiology of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Chapter 2. Traces of Hope: The Nonsynchronicity of Ernst Bloch
Chapter 3. Why Fantasy Matters Too Much: The Delusion and Hope of the Fantastic
Chapter 4. The Contemporary German Fascination for Things Jewish: Toward a Jewish Minor Culture
Chapter 5. George Tabori and the Jewish Question
Chapter 6. Inclusion as Exclusion: Framing Jewish and German Questions in the Public Sphere
Chapter 7. On the Necessity of Writing Poetry and Stories after Auschwitz: A Reassessment of Adorno's Cultural Critique
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is a founding father of the academic discipline of Fairy Tale. His books include Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales (2014) and The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales (2017).

Summary

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s insightful essays and presentations on fairy tales, Jewish studies, philosophy, drama, and the German public sphere.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Zipes, Jack (University of Minnesota Zipes, Zipes Jack
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032903552
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290355-2
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Popular Culture, Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Humanities, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History: specific events and topics, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general