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My discussion in this section builds on Zipes’ and Stephens’ work, in particular Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (1983a) and Language and Ideology in Children’s Fiction (1992). Both writers, in fact, believe in the socializing power of children’s stories and claim the existence of a mutual link between fairy tales and society: society generates fairy tales, according to its own views about child-rearing, and fairy tales in their turn contribute to the maintenance (or the alteration) of the status quo; this brings to light the repressive danger inherent in children’s stories but also their liberating potential.
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© 2003 Alessandra Levorato
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Levorato, A. (2003). Intertextuality, Ideology and the Tendencies of Change. In: Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503878_6
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