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Record Nr.

UNINA9910595062103321

Autore

Bluhm Lothar

Titolo

Fairy Tales as Literature of Literature : The "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" by the Brothers Grimm / / by Lothar Bluhm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783662660003

3662660008

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Disciplina

398.210922

Soggetti

Literary form

Prose literature

European literature

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Literary Genre

Narrative Text and Prose

European Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- List of illustrations -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. The genre 'fairy tale' and its study -- 3. The children's and household tales as 'palimpsests': forms of the history of origin and transformation -- 4. Fairy tales as literature from literature -- 5. Postscript -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the well-known fairy tale narratives, in the course of the editing process by the Brothers Grimm, essentially by Wilhelm Grimm. By means of a series of model studies - including Rapunzel, Jorinde und Joringel and Der Jude im Dorn - it is shown that the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, contrary to their traditional assessment as 'folk tales', are of literary origin and have a literary character themselves.