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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Grimm Brothers"”.
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The tales of the grimm brothers in colombia: introduction, dissemination, and reception
<p>The Grimms' <em>Kinder- und Hausmärchen</em> or <em>Children's and Household Tales</em> are probably the best-known written collection of folk tales worldwide. The reception of the stories, however, varies greatly both at an individual and at a collective level. Several studies have examined the …
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What Makes a Woman "Pious and Good": The Function of Several Grimm Brothers' Cautionary Fairy Tales
<p>This thesis explores how several of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, “Little Snow-white and the seven dwarfs,” “The Juniper Tree,” and “Cinderella” exhibit patriarchal expectations of women that fairy tale protagonists strive to uphold, while female villains feel driven to violence and artifice …
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Motifs, l'art et les moyens, Les: la reussite des contes de fee de Perrault et des freres Grimm
… those of Charles Perrault and Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm are the best-selling non-religious literary works of all time in these two countries. In an attempt to understand the underlying reasons for the popularity of the fairy tale genre in general, scholars have explored the social, cultural, …
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The French-language Reception of Grimms’ ‘Rotkappchen’ 1868-1948
… a fairy tale which was later recounted by the Grimm Brothers as ‘Rotkäppchen’ in their collection of 1812/1815. Scholarly research has already shown the extent to which Perrault’s earlier collection influenced the Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen. But how might the French reaction to the Grimm …
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Metamorphosis in Red
Folk and fairy tales have been told for centuries and they remain a mainstay in children's literature. When they were first written down, the tales included startling episodes of mistreatment of women, including sexual assault, oppression and violence. Though these stories have become sanitized …
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If you were mine : a novel.
… tales, particularly in those popularised by the Brothers Grimm, different versions of the tales published over extended time periods provide insight into the ways in which society has perceived and, perhaps, still perceives the roles of biological and non-biological/adoptive mothers. However, …