Brothers Grimm And Their Critics

Folktales And The Quest For Meaning

By: Christa Kamenetsky

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Paperback | 1 February 1994

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Critics 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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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Background and History
Biographical Sketch of the Brothers Grimm	p. 9
Childhood and Youth	p. 9
Studies in Marburg and Abroad	p. 14
From Libraries to Diplomacy	p. 18
The Grimms' Struggle for Democracy	p. 21
Toward an International Scholarship	p. 25
Berlin and Beyond	p. 29
The History of the Kinder-Und Hausmarchen	p. 39
Collections for Arnim and Brentano (1805-1811)	p. 39
Folktales for Savigny's Children (1808)	p. 41
The Publishing History (1812-1857)	p. 45
The Grimms' Theory and Practice of Folktale Collections
The Nature and Meaning of Folktales	p. 55
Herder and the Brothers Grimm	p. 55
Naturpoesie: The Grimms Search for Naivete	p. 63
The Epic Connection	p. 68
Folktales and Norse Mythology	p. 71
Folktale Characters	p. 81
Mythical and Epic Dimensions	p. 81
Characters from Folk Books and Legends	p. 86
Humane and Poetic Character Traits	p. 91
The Origin of Myths and Folktales	p. 99
Indo-European and Comparative Theories	p. 99
Universal Folktale Origins	p. 102
The Art and Age of Storytelling	p. 103
Language Dynamics and Loyalty to Tradition	p. 108
The Sources of the Collection	p. 113
The Background of the Informants	p. 113
The Issue of Ethnic Origin	p. 118
The Child as Informant	p. 123
The Language and Games of Children	p. 127
Printed Sources	p. 137
The Methods of the Collection	p. 151
Recording and Annotating Oral Sources	p. 151
Jacob Grimm's Folklore Questionnaire	p. 159
The Editing Process	p. 162
The Grimms' Folktale Style	p. 168
Critical Appraisal of the Kinder-Und Hausmarchen
Marchenkritik in the Context of European Romanticism	p. 181
Folklore and the Middle Ages	p. 181
Volksmarchen versus Kunstmarchen	p. 184
Marchen at Home and Abroad	p. 188
The Grimms' Response to the Fearful	p. 192
The English Quest for Nordic Roots	p. 195
The Plea for Imagination: Taylor and Scott	p. 198
The Irish Connection	p. 202
Didactic Approaches to Folktales and Fairy Tales	p. 215
Philosophical Objections to Fairy Tales	p. 215
Religious and Moralistic Approaches (England)	p. 220
Pragmatic and Realistic Approaches (U.S.A.)	p. 231
Early Social and Nationalistic Approaches (Germany)	p. 236
Political-Ideological Approaches: The Nazi Era	p. 241
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Grimms' Folktales	p. 255
Linguistics and Solar Mythology	p. 255
Anthropology: Savage Customs and Rituals	p. 258
Formalistic and Structural Approaches	p. 265
Psychoanalysis and Archetypes	p. 270
Symbolic and Literary Interpretations	p. 275
Feminist Views and Counterarguments	p. 279
Social-Historical Perspectives	p. 287
The Issue of National Character	p. 292
The Issue of Folktale Ethics	p. 296
Different Versions of the Kinder-Und Hausmarchen	p. 309
Children's Book Editions and Translations	p. 309
Folktales from the Grimm Archives	p. 314
Ironic and Satirical Versions	p. 316
Conclusion	p. 327
Dispelling the Myths	p. 327
Bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 359
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