Grimms' Bad Girls & Bold Boys
Title | Grimms' Bad Girls & Bold Boys PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth B. Bottigheimer |
Publisher | New Haven : Yale University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
ISBN | 9780300039085 |
Studie over de morele inhoud van de sprookjes van Grimm, gezien tegen de sociale en historische achtergronden van hun tijd.
A Tale Dark & Grimm
Title | A Tale Dark & Grimm PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Gidwitz |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2010-10-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101445289 |
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.
Fairy Tales and Society
Title | Fairy Tales and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth B. Bottigheimer |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0812201507 |
This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, fairy tales function as a paradigm both for understanding society and for developing individual behavior and personality. A few of the topics covered in this volume: oral narration in contemporary society; madness and cure in the 1001 Nights; the female voice in folklore and fairy tale; change in narrative form; tests, tasks, and trials in the Grimms' fairy tales; and folklorists as agents of nationalism. The subject of methodology is discussed by Torborg Lundell, Stven Swann Jones, Hans-Jorg Uther, and Anna Tavis.
Fairy Godfather
Title | Fairy Godfather PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth B. Bottigheimer |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0812201396 |
In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved Puss in Boots, and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city. With innovative literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in social history of the Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language.
Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys
Title | Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth B. Bottigheimer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 1989-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780300043891 |
In this book -- the first in more than fifty years to treat the entire body of Grimms' Tales -- Ruth B. Bottigheimer provides a thorough analysis of the stories' content, focusing in particular on the matter of gender. By combining a sociohistorical examination of the stories with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, Bottigheimer reveals coherent patterns of motif, plot, and image and brings new insight into the moral and social vision of the collection.
Happily Ever After
Title | Happily Ever After PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Zipes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1135252963 |
First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes's latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between different cultures this book addresses Zipes's ongoing concern with the fairy tale- its impact on children and adults, its role in the socialisation of children- as well as the future of the fairy tale on the big(and little) screen. Here are Straparola's sixteenth-century 'Puss in Boots' and a 1922 film of the story; Hansel and Gretel and child abuse; the Pinocchio of Colladi and of Walt Disney. AN ardent champion of children's literature and children's culture, Zipes writes also about oral tradition and the rise of storytelling throughout the world. But behind each of his essays lies the key question that all fairy tales will raise: what does it tale to bring about happiness? And is happiness only to be found in fairy tales?
Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters
Title | Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Ragan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393045987 |
Collects 100 tales from around the world, including Africa, Western Europe, Native American cultures, Asia, and the Middle East, that feature a heroine.