The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions - Hardcover

HAASE, Donald (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814322077 ISBN 13: 9780814322079

Publisher: Wayne, 1993

Synopsis

The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales brings together premier scholars of the fairy tale, including Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Maria Tatar, and Jack Zipes, with acclaimed creative writers such as Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Jane Yolen, and award-winning artist Trina Schart Hyman. The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers; the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences; and aspects of the literary, philosophical, creative, and oral reception of the tales, illuminating how writers, philosophers, artists, and storytellers have responded to, reacted to, and revised the stories, thus shedding light on the ways in which past and contemporary transmitters of culture have understood and passed on the Grimms' tales.

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Book Description:

The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers; the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences; and aspects of the literary, philosophical, creative, and oral reception of the tales, illuminating how writers, ph

About the Author:

Donald P. Haase is an associate professor of German and chair of the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Wayne State University. He has spent more than ten years researching and publishing on the theory of fantasy and literary fairy tale of the German Romantics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0814322077
• ISBN 13: 9780814322079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352