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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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM | 9 |
THE HISTORY OF THE KINDER UND HAUSMÄRCHEN | 39 |
THE NATURE AND MEANING OF FOLKTALES | 55 |
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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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