The Brothers Grimm & Their Critics

Folktales and the Quest for Meaning

• Author(s): Christa Kamenetsky,
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Pages: 377
• ISBN_10: 0821410202
  ISBN_13: 9780821410202
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / German , Literary Criticism / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology ,

Description:... 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.