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“... stories involving a disjuncture between a disappointing real world and an ideal alternative. Both Jack Zipes’s The Wounded Storyteller and Peter Wortsman’s ‘The Golden Pot’ and Other Tales of the Uncanny include translations of ‘The Sandman’, Hoffmann’s most famous text. ‘The Sandman’, the ur-text on the Doppelgänger, has been the ...”

“... various editions. In the phrase of another astringent critic of the world of the fairy-tale, Jack Zipes, the ‘instrumentalisation of fantasy’ is always a danger, and the Grimms, in spite of their brilliant recovery of an oral and popular literature, did not perceive their findings as a radical challenge to convention, but as conservative of ...”