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Book Medieval German Tales in English tradition

Download or read book Medieval German Tales in English tradition written by John Wesley Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval German Tales in English Translation

Download or read book Medieval German Tales in English Translation written by John Wesley Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales

Download or read book Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretations of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century. In so doing, Ziolkowski explores stories that survive in both versions associated with, on the one hand, such standards of the nineteenth-century fairy tale as the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Carlo Collodi and, on the other, medieval Latin, demonstrating that the literary fairy tale owes a great debt to the Latin literature of the medieval period. Jan M. Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

Book Grimms  Fairy Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Brothers Grimm
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-05-10
  • ISBN : 9781981064472
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Grimms Fairy Tales written by The Brothers Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grimms' Fairy Tales are Tales of Childhood and Home. Collection of German folk tales published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first in two volumes, published successively on December 20, 1812 and in 1815.The first edition contained 86 stories, but at the seventh edition, in 1857, there were 211 unique fairy tales.From 1806 to 1810, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting folktales and collecting oral stories for publication.The Grimms collected many old books and asked friends and acquaintances in Kassel to tell stories and collect stories from other people.Jacob and Wilhelm sought to collect these stories in order to write a history of old German poetry and preserve history.The influence of these books was prevalent during the Second World War as one of the founding works of Western culture.Grimm Brothers were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and writers who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.The brothers were born in Germany. The death of their father in 1796 impoverished the family and affected the brothers for many years afterwards. They attended the University of Marburg where they began a dedication to researching the early history of German language and literature, including German fairy tales. The rise of Romanticism in the 18th century revived interest in traditional folk stories, which for the Grimms and their colleagues represented a pure form of national literature and culture. The Grimm brothers have established a methodology for the collection and recording of popular stories that have become the basis of folk studies. Between the first edition of 1812-15, and the seventh and last edition of 1857, they revised their collection several times, so that it went from 156 stories to more than 200. AuthorsThe Brothers Grimm: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785 - 1863), Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786 - 1859), GermanyAfter graduation from the Friedrichsgymnasium, the brothers attended the University of Marburg. The university was small with about 200 students and there they became painfully aware that students of lower social status were not treated equally. They were disqualified from admission because of their social status and had to apply for the exemption from studying law. The richest students received stipends, but the brothers were excluded even from the help for tuition. Their poverty kept them away from student activities or university social life; Ironically, however, their outsider status worked in their favor, and they continued their studies more vigorously. The brothers were inspired by their law professor Friedrich von Savigny, who aroused in them an interest in history and philology, and they turned to the study of medieval German literature.TransatorLucy Crane (1842-1882) was an English writer, art critic, and translator. She has worked on children's stories and nursery rhymes and has lectured in England on the fine arts. Crane was born in Liverpool in 1842 as the daughter of portrait painter and miniature painter Thomas Crane. His older brother Thomas and his younger brother Walter have both become renowned artists. The crane family left Liverpool for Torquay in 1845. Lucy then went to school in London, and in 1859 the family left Torquay for London. From an early age, Crane has shown considerable taste and skill in drawing and coloring. The circumstances, however, drew her attention to general educational work and she found employment as a housekeeper. She has become an accomplished musician, and has distinguished herself not only by her delicate touch as a performer, but also by the classic refinement of her taste and her knowledge of Italian and English. Crane worked on nursery rhymes and children's stories, and she translated Grimm Brothers' Household Stories collection from German to English in 1882 (Grimm's fairy tales).

Book The Complete Grimm s Fairy Tales

Download or read book The Complete Grimm s Fairy Tales written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in a fairy tale world, There were magical mirrors and golden slippers;Castles and fields and mountains of glass,Houses of bread and windows of sugar.Frogs transformed into handsome Princes,And big bad wolves into innocent grandmothers.There were evil queens and wicked stepmothers;Sweethearts, true brides, and secret lovers. In the same fairy world, A poor boy has found a golden key and an iron chest, and " We must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid . . ." A classic collection of timeless folk tales by Grimm Brothers, Grimm' s Fairy Tales are not only enchanting, mysterious, and amusing, but also frightening and intriguing. Delighting children and adults alike, these tales have undergone several adaptations over the decades. This edition with black-and-white illustrations is a translation by Margaret Hunt.

Book Telling Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Blamires
  • Publisher : Open Book Publishers
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1906924090
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Telling Tales written by David Blamires and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri's Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English chilren's stories during the 19th Centuary and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive study of the impact of Germany on English children's books, covering the period from 1780 to the First World War. Beginning with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, moving through the classics and including many other collections of fairytales and legends (Musaus, Wilhelm Hauff, Bechstein, Brentano) Telling Tales covers a wealth of translated and adapted material in a large variety of forms, and pays detailed attention to the problems of translation and adaptation of texts for children. In addition, Telling Tales considers educational works (Campe and Salzmann), moral and religious tales (Carove, Schmid and Barth), historical tales, adventure stories and picture books (including Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz) together with an analysis of what British children learnt through textbooks about Germany as a country and its variegated history, particularly in times of war.

Book Tales of magic  tales in print

Download or read book Tales of magic tales in print written by Willem De Blecourt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.

Book Little Snow White

Download or read book Little Snow White written by Brothers Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes famous fairy tale Little Snow-White by Grimm Brothers fully illustrated all-color (12 color illustrations) by Maria Tsaneva and adapted in corresponding English-German paragraphs. The book is an excellent way to read Paragraph by Paragraph Translation along your kids. Your little one can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding German paragraph. The paragraphs are not long, so there is no need to do a lot of back and forth to see the German translation and the English text. The text is relatively simple vocabulary and grammar wise, but not very simple at all, so for beginners this should be a great challenge.

Book Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages written by Walter Haug and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set a new agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, such as are found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin traditions, Walter Haug shows that they marked the gradual emancipation of an independent vernacular poetics that went hand in hand with changing narrative forms. While focussing primarily on medieval German writers, Haug also takes into account French literature of the same period, and the principles underlying his argument are equally relevant to medieval literature in English or any other European language. This ground-breaking study is now available in English for the first time.

Book Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales   The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies

Download or read book Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies written by and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Song of the Nibelungs

Download or read book Song of the Nibelungs written by and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.

Book Foreign Tales and Traditions Chiefly Selected from the Fugitive Literature of Germany

Download or read book Foreign Tales and Traditions Chiefly Selected from the Fugitive Literature of Germany written by George Godfrey Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales   The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies

Download or read book Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies written by Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M Ziolkowski and published by Vintage Cookery Books. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Das Kalte Herz

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  • Author : Wilhelm Hauff
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781015907003
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Das Kalte Herz written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Household Tales and Traditions of England  Germany  France  Scotland  etc

Download or read book Household Tales and Traditions of England Germany France Scotland etc written by HOUSEHOLD TALES. and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned

Download or read book Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned written by Gretchen Schultz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of subversive French fairy tales The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in France in the late nineteenth century. Written by such creative luminaries as Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Guillaume Apollinaire, these enchanting yet troubling stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. Recasting well-known favorites from classic French fairy tales, as well as Arthurian legends and English and German tales, the updated interpretations in this collection allow for more perverse settings and disillusioned perspectives—a trademark style and ethos of the decadent tradition. In these stories, characters puncture the optimism of the naive, talismans don't work, and the most deserving don’t always get the best rewards. The fairies are commonly victims of modern cynicism and technological advancement, but just as often are dangerous creatures corrupted by contemporary society. The collection underlines such decadent themes as the decline of civilization, the degeneration of magic and the unreal, gender confusion, and the incursion of the industrial. The volume editors provide an informative introduction, biographical notes for each author, and explanatory notes throughout. Subverting the conventions of the traditional fairy tale, these old tales made new will entertain and startle even the most disenchanted readers.

Book Chips from a German Workshop  Essays on mythology  traditions  and customs

Download or read book Chips from a German Workshop Essays on mythology traditions and customs written by Friedrich Max Müller and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: