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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Grimms"”.
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The French-language Reception of Grimms’ ‘Rotkappchen’ 1868-1948
… Perrault’s earlier collection influenced the Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen. But how might the French reaction to the Grimm ‘version’ be reflected in subsequent French translations, and especially during periods of Franco-German conflict? This is the pivotal question addressed in the four …
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Grenzüberschreitungen : Eine untersuchung ausgewählter Novellen Hans Grimms im Zusammenhang mit der kolonialen Grenzproblematik
The focus of this dissertation is the concept of liminality within selected novellas of the German colonial author Hans Grimm (1875-1959). Boundaries and frontiers are an omnipresent key issue within colonial literature. Within the postcolonial German literary studies field, however, liminality has …
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Transformations: the Gold Key to an Understanding of the Poetry of Anne Sexton
… lack of autobiography, its humor, and its use of Grimms' fairy tales. I contend that Transformations does not basically differ from and is, in fact, indicative of some of the general characteristics of theme, style, and method of Sexton's other works. To prove this contention the study is divided …
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The sin-complex: a critical study of English versions of the Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the nineteenth century in comparison with the German originals
… thesis investigates the English versions of the Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (= KHM) published between the years 1823 and 1884, i.e. from the first translation by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine, German Popular Stories (1823 and 1826), to the first complete edition of the Grimms’ collection of …
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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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The Youth who went forth to live in a Fairy-Tale: A Märchenforschung analysis of Cornelia Funke's Reckless novels
… and comparing Funke’s novels with the Brother Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household tales) to explore how far contemporary Märchen differ from the classic ones, and why these changes have been applied, but also how and why the core of Märchen is still the same for readers …
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Transformations: A Folkloric Exploration of the Musical Comedy Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
… four tales play themselves out according to Grimms' version they are based upon. Act Two begins after "Happily Ever After" and attempts to bring the characters back into real life. Rapunzel has psychological problems; the Princes' eyes stray elsewhere; Jack is bored; and Little Red Riding …
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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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Advent of Denial of Death in Children's Literature
After creating and sustaining highly Romanticized notions of childhood, society begins to protect children from the dangers that supposedly exist exclusively in adult reality, particularly death. Taking into consideration society's attitude towards childhood, this thesis closely examines the …