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Das Buch erkundet soziale und ideologische Implikationen der Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Besonders geht es um restriktive Vorstellungen von Geschlechterrollen, wie sie nicht nur im Handeln, sondern auch im Sprechen weiblicher und männlicher Protagonisten (Prinzessinnen und Hexen, Helden und Königen etc.) zum Ausdruck kommen. Weitere ideologische Positionen untersucht die Autorin an märchentypischen Themen wie Naturgewalten, Eroti...

Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. Ruth B. Bottigheimer overturns this view in a lively account of the origins of these well-loved stories. Charles Perrault created ...

Fairy GodfatherStraparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale TraditionRuth B. Bottigheimer"Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola."--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker"A vivid and compelling picture of life in Venice and the Veneto in the sixteent...

For more than five centuries, parents, teachers, and preachers in Europe and America have written and illustrated Bibles especially for children. These children's Bibles vary widely, featuring different stories, various interpretations, and markedly divergent illustrations, despite their common source. How children's Bibles differ, and why, is the subject of this ground-breaking book, the first to recognize children's Bibles as a distinct genr...

Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.

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Fairy Tales and Society Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm Edited by Ruth B. Bottigheimer 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...

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