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The
Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales
Responses, Reactions, Revisions
Edited by Donald Haase |
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The
Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales brings together
premier scholars of the fairy tale, including Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Maria
Tatar, and Jack Zipes, with acclaimed creative writers such as Margaret
Atwood, Angela Carter, Jane Yolen, and award-winning artist Trina Schart
Hyman. The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers;
the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences; and
aspects of the literary, philosophical, creative, and oral reception of
the tales, illuminating how writers, philosophers, artists, and storytellers
have responded to, reacted to, and revised the stories, thus shedding light
on the ways in which past and contemporary transmitters of culture have
understood and passed on the Grimms' tales. |
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"Enterprising
and well-edited . . . In contributions from leading fairy-tale scholars
in Europe and the United States
. . . we find a welcome plurality of critical styles and perspectives, identifying
rich new areas of scholarly interest, such as publishing history, urban
storytelling, traditions of translation, and shedding new light on more
familiar issues, such as textual traditions, the rights and responsibilities
of narrators and editors, and work by contemporaries of the Grimms." —Times
Literary Supplement |
