The Brothers Grimm & Their Critics: Folktales and the Quest for MeaningCritics of the Grimms' folktales have often imposed narrow patriotic, religious, moralistic, social, and pragmatic meanings of their stories, sometimes banning them altogether from nurseries and schoolrooms. In this study, Kamenetsky uses the methodology of the folklorist to place the folktale research of the Grimms within the broader context of their scholarly work in comparative linguistics and literature. |
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... ancient Egypt or in ancient Greece . The same innocent spirit of childhood was also reflected in folktales and legends , in which children were close to nature , pure , honest , and absorbed in play . In folktales , epics , and the ...
... ancient Egypt or in ancient Greece . The same innocent spirit of childhood was also reflected in folktales and legends , in which children were close to nature , pure , honest , and absorbed in play . In folktales , epics , and the ...
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... ancient history used this expression literally , thus creating the story of how Cronus swallowed his children . Another explanation related to the ancient idea that night swallowed day or that darkness swallowed the sun . Again , people ...
... ancient history used this expression literally , thus creating the story of how Cronus swallowed his children . Another explanation related to the ancient idea that night swallowed day or that darkness swallowed the sun . Again , people ...
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... ancient rituals and festivals , he demonstrated again and again how we had come to forget the " real " origin of folktales and myths . He even showed how in some cases we had forgotten the origin of rituals as well . Thus he showed the ...
... ancient rituals and festivals , he demonstrated again and again how we had come to forget the " real " origin of folktales and myths . He even showed how in some cases we had forgotten the origin of rituals as well . Thus he showed the ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM | 9 |
THE HISTORY OF THE KINDER UND HAUSMÄRCHEN | 39 |
THE GRIMMS THEORY AND PRACTICE OF FOLKTALE COLLECTIONS | 53 |
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The Brothers Grimm and Their Critics: Folktales and the Quest for Meaning Christa Kamenetsky No preview available - 1993 |
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