Showing Results for
- Literature Criticism (31)
Search Results
- 31
Literature Criticism
- 31
-
From: Social Research[(essay date 1968) In the following essay, Carsch argues that the Grimm brothers, partly under the influence of the Napoleonic wars, strove to preserve an essential part of German culture from extinction. Carsch views...
-
From: The Christian ExaminerJakob and Wilhelm Grimm till but lately were the acknowledged patriarchs of German letters.... One in scholarship, one in love, their lives and their work were alike blended. But to recognize the spirit in which they...
-
From: Popular Stories[Grimms' Fairy Tales] are in many respects common, imperfect, vulgar; but their vulgarity is of a wholesome and harmless kind. It is not, for instance, graceful English, to say that a thought “popped into Catherine's...
-
From: The North American ReviewThe name of Jacob Grimm has long been known as that of one of the most eminent representatives of erudition and of science produced by our century. His [Deutsche Grammatik], although it has done but little for learners...
-
From: Popular Stories by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm[The rich collection of tales from the Brothers Grimm] is very interesting in a literary point of view, as affording a new proof of the wide and early diffusion of [the] gay creations of the imagination, apparently...
-
From: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Zipes examines both the social and political messages of the tales and the attempts of later German writers to adapt them according to their own political agendas. Zipes also...
-
From: Canadian Children’s Literature[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Hoogland considers which kinds of fairy tale variants are most appropriate for schoolchildren. She compares the Grimms’ version of “Little Red Riding Hood” with various feminist...
-
From: Household Stories by the Brothers GrimmThe “Kinder und Hausmärchen” of the Brothers Grimm is a world-renowned book. Every collector of stories has borrowed from its treasures,—hundreds of artists have illustrated it,—plays have been founded on many of the...
-
From: Social Research: An International Quarterly[(essay date 1968) In the following essay, Carsch considers both implicit and explicit references to the devil in the tales, arguing that the Grimms used the figure as a form of social control to "exemplif[y] I This...
-
From: The Critic[Pick up old Jacob Grimm!] A breath as from some real, delicious world of ferns and greenery and leafiness, and of real women and children, blows freshly in one's face and stirs the roots of one's hair as with currents...
-
From: The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Orton considers human-animal transformations in the Grimms’ stories, Old Norse mythology, and English folklore. Orton associates these transformations with pre-Christian pagan...
-
From: National Romanticism in Norway[(essay date 1933) In the following essay, Falnes addresses the significance of nationalism and the "language controversy" in the folk tales of Asbjørnsen and Moe.] When Asbjørnsen and Moe began in 1841 to publish...
-
From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 114. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Dora Alonso (Cuba)Las aventuras de Guille (juvenile fiction) 1964 Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff (France)Histoire de Babar (juvenile fiction) 1931Le Voyage de Babar (juvenile fiction) 1932 Mary...
-
From:Pynchon Notes (Issue 46-49) Peer-ReviewedThe pig appears again and again, in many contexts, throughout Gravity's Rainbow. A number of studies have explored the way the pig image functions in the novel, but many of them are flawed by attempts to impose a single...
-
From: The World of Angela Carter: A Critical Investigation[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Cavallaro offers an overview of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and notes the writers and literary traditions that influenced Carter’s style. Cavallaro emphasizes the...
-
From: Western Folklore[(essay date 1979) In the following essay, Dégh provides an overview of the critical, editorial, and publishing history of the Grimms’tales. She traces the work’s progression from its origins in nineteenth-century...
-
From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In discussions of fairy-tale retellings, the concept of intertextuality is often introduced to explain the relationship between a retelling and the traditional fairy tale(s) to which it refers. (1)...
-
From: Western Folklore[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Tatar explores the theme of metamorphosis in the fairy-tale tradition, arguing that the valuation of transformation, enchantment, and the magical capability of language helps...
-
From: The Literature of German Romanticism[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Lampart discusses the relationship between German Romanticism and folk literature. Lampart compares two crucial works in the tradition: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a collection of...
-
From: Journal of the Folklore Institute[(essay date 1964) In the following essay, the Davids advocate approaching the tales as imaginative literature rather than as folklore. Examining the Grimms' approach to nature and art, the critics consider the tales in...