Martin, L. (2006) The Jew in the thornbush: German fairy tales and anti-semitism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Musaus, Naubert and the Grimms'. Modern Language Review, pp. 123-141.
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Abstract
This essay looks at a particular time and place of the tale-telling tradition, namely the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Germany, at tales recorded or written by the well-known brothers Grimm and by two of their less famous precursors, Johann Karl August Musäus and Benedikte Naubert, with a view to seeing how these writers use violence in their stories. The narratives studied are all Märchen – that is, folk or fairy tales. They do not aspire to the cosmology of myth or saga, for example; they are meant for sheer entertainment, whatever underlying messages or revelations about cultural values one may find in them.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Martin, Dr Laura |
Authors: | Martin, L. |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German |
Journal Name: | Modern Language Review |
Publisher: | Modern Languages Research Association |
ISSN: | 0026-7937 |
ISBN: | 9783039102662 |
First Published: | First published in Modern Language Review |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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