Jack Zipes Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2010
- Jack Zipes is one of the worlds leading authorities on fairy tales, writing about and translating them. An internationally renowned scholar and author of more than 50 books on many subjects, he has through his writings transformed research on fairy tales, particularly with respect to how they function in the socialization of readers. Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
Sponsored by Green College and the supporting units for the M.A. in Childrens Literature Program (MACL): the School of Library Archival and Information Studies, the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program in the Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
If "Utopia" means "Nowhere" then its just like "Nirvana" which means the transcendent, "It neither is or is not." The logical mind cannot handle that statement. And for good reason. It's transcendent, finally, of reason itself. Beyond thought. If you cannot accept that there is something beyond thought, then you are stuck in a place that has no mystery, no magic, and you will never get out.
I see what's wrong here. As much as I was enraptured with his storytelling, at the end of the day he like the New Yorker said "Is a Marxist" which means he only believes in this reality and somehow making it better. I'll admit, that's a valid argument. There is no "objective" validation of a transcendent reality. I've never had a "mystic" experience itself, although I do believe I've felt something close to it, maybe just for microseconds, at certain moments. Certainly during meditation. But at the end of the day, and I'm certainly not immune to this, I've got ot pay my bills like the next guy, if you don't believe in some kind of transcendence, in another words, "Another World", I don't see you engaging the world of Myth and Fairy tale properly.
are you a pageau guy?