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Tables of Contents for Breaking the Magic Spell
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to 2002 Edition
ix
Preface to 1979 Edition
xi
Acknowledgments
xiv
Introductory Fairy Tales
xv
Once There Was a Time: An Introduction to the History and Ideology of Folk and Fairy Tales
1
22
Might Makes Right---The Politics of Folk and Fairy Tales
23
24
The Revolutionary Rise of the Romantic Fairy Tale in Germany
47
57
The Instrumentalization of Fantasy: Fairy Tales, the Culture Industry and Mass media
104
42
The Utopian Function of Fairy Tales and Fantasy: Ernst Bloch the Marxist and J.R.R. Tolkien the Catholic
146
33
On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand
179
27
The Radical Morality of Rats, Fairies, Wizards and Ogres: Taking Children's Literature Seriously
206
27
Notes
233
20
Bibliography
253
18
Index
271