The hard facts of the Grimms' fairy tales /
"Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring tran...
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| Formáid: | Licensed eBooks |
| Teanga: | Béarla |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Eagrán: | Expanded edition with a new preface by the author. |
| Sraith: | Princeton classics ;
39. |
| Rochtain ar líne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv36zr2z |
Clár na nÁbhar:
- Preface to the Printceton classics edition
- Preface (2003)
- Preface
- I. Children's literature?
- Sex and violence : the hard core of fairy tales
- Fact and fantasy : the art of reading fairy tales
- Victims and seekers : the family romance of fairy tales
- II. Heroes
- Born yesterday : the spear side
- Spinning tales : the distaff side
- III. Villains
- From nags to witches : stepmothers and other ogres
- Taming the beast : Bluebeard and other monsters
- Epilogue. Getting even
- Appendix A. Six fairy tales from the nursery and household tales, with commentary
- Appendix B. Selected tales from the first edition of the nursery and household tales
- Appendix C. Prefaces to the first and second editions of the nursery and household tales
- Appendix D. English titles, tale numbers, and German titles of stories cited.