Grimm brothers fairy tales list
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
Evidently the go-to expert on fairy tales these days is Jack Zipes, so I read this book of his and appreciated the range of angles that he looked at the Grimms' work from, not only biographical, but also psychoanalytical, historical, sociological, linguistic and ethical, while also focusing on utopian, feminist, Romantic nation-building, literary critical and other aspects, with viewpoints from the Jungian, Marxian, Campbellian and Waldorfian to the Disneyan and the East German cinematic.
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The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection
“Ann Schmiesing . . . has brought the brothers to life in their fullness.”—Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal
“Magisterial.”—Kirkus Reviews
More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages—more than any other German book—and the Brothers Grimm are among the top dozen most translated authors in the world. In addition to collecting tales, the Grimms were mythographers, linguists, librarians, civil servants, and above all the closest of brothers, but until now, the full story of their lifelong endeavor to preserve and articulate a German cultural identity has not been well known.
Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
Who were the Brothers Grimm? Despite the enormous influence the Grimms have had on our culture, they themselves remain little known and poorly understood. In "The Brothers Grimm", Jack Zipes sets the record straight. Bringing to bear his own expertise as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts -- as scholars and civil servants -- toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political and personal elements of his subjects' lives, Zipes rescues the Grimms form sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in a fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical reassessment, and part social history, "The Brothers Grimm" gives us back a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the mod
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