The Jew in the thornbush: German fairy tales and anti-semitism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Musaus, Naubert and the Grimms'

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.

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
• 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
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