The Brothers Grimm

From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World 2e

By: J. Zipes

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Paperback | 1 December 2002 | Edition Number 2

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Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the romantic myth of the brothers as wandering scholars, who gathered "authentic" tales from the peasantry. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise as well and 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 the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from 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 assessment, and part social history, The Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.

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'Jack Zipes does a marvelous job of digging out the way the stories were set up. They often reflect the early traumas of loss and desolation suffered by the Grimm brothers and their redemption by hard work and luck.' - The Boston Globe

'Zipes' eloquent and persuasive scholarship is enough to recommend The Brothers Grimm, but it is his witty and trenchant readings of the tales that will delight even the most hardened anti-Grimm reader.' - The Globe and Mail

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Preface to the 2002 Edition	p. ix
Preface to the 1988 Edition	p. xvii
Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm: A Reintroduction	p. 1
The Origins and Reception of the Tales	p. 25
Exploring Historical Paths	p. 65
From Odysseus to Tom Thumb and Other Cunning Heroes: Speculations about the Entrepreneurial Spirit	p. 91
The German Obsession with Fairy Tales	p. 107
Henri Pourrat and the Tradition of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm	p. 135
Recent Psychological Approaches with Some Questions about the Abuse of Children	p. 153
Semantic Shifts of Power in Folk and Fairy Tales: Cinderella and the Consequences	p. 187
Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale: The Immortality of Sleeping Beauty and Storytelling	p. 207
The Struggle for the Grimms' Throne: The Legacy of the Grimms' Tales in East and West Germany since 1945	p. 231
Notes	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 323
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