Jack Zipes

Jack Zipes is the author of The Irresistible Fairy Tale, translator of The Original Bambi and The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, and editor of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

Jack Zipes Recommends Édouard Labouylaye, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, and More

April 6, 2023 By Jack Zipes

“A Syrupy Love-Fest.” On the Blasphemous Disneyfication of Felix Salten’s Bambi

Jack Zipes on the Great Shame of Diluting Salten’s Message

January 31, 2022 By Jack Zipes

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