Grimm's Fairy Tales (A Must Read) PDF

**Grimm's Fairy Tales (A Must Read)** Before you read the stories written by the Grimm Brothers, here are some fun facts that are nice to know: The word \"fairy tale\" was created by a French writer Madame d\'Aulnoy in the late 17th century, but Charles Perrault\'s contemporary retellings of the o...

**Grimm's Fairy Tales (A Must Read)** Before you read the stories written by the Grimm Brothers, here are some fun facts that are nice to know: The word \"fairy tale\" was created by a French writer Madame d\'Aulnoy in the late 17th century, but Charles Perrault\'s contemporary retellings of the old fairy tales were better known. The term \"folklore\" was first defined by English antiquarian William Thoms in his letter to The Athenaeum magazine in 1846. Some tales like Welsh Mabinogion, such in the 14th century, have a spiritual or religious function -- which folklores are not used for. Real people, places, or events are not cited. Still, instead, stories start in \"once upon a time\...\" which readers and audiences expect random magic, reward and revenge, typical random characters, and a happy ending. Fairy tales are written in plain and simple styles using mainly straightforward imagery. The fairy tales without or rarely using poetic or literary references and realism (Canton, 2016). Before --------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- c\. 1350-1410 Oral tales based on Welsh stories are collected in the Mobinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain. 1697 Tales of Mother Goose is a collection of rewritten and original stories were created by a French author named Charles Perrault. 1782-87 A popular collection of satirical folk series was published by the German author Johann Karl August Musaus. After --------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1835-49 Finish folklore is celebrated in the epic poem the Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot. 1841 Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe published the Norwegian Folktales. 1979 English novelist Angela Carter wrote The Bloody Chamber to challenge the traditional folktale portrayals of women. The focus of the featured great book \"Grimm\'s Fairytale\" is the folklore collections. These folklore collections are written into one written text; cultural traditions such as oral history, fairy tales, and popular briefs are compiled since the Middle Ages. According to James Canton (2016), the Brothers Grimm, engage on an academic project to identify and preserve the spirit of the people in recording fairy tales being told across their culture. **This was an epic romantic venture: interest in folklore was inspired by a rise in nationalism and cultural pride, and the purpose of the Grimms\' collection was no different. Nor were they the only European scholars to undertake such an enterprise, and their peer group at university shared their enthusiasm for folk traditions. But the Grimms\' work, as reflected in their Children\'s and Househola Tales, represents the most magnificent body of stories collected in Europe and is the most widely translated and read.** WH Auden declared Grimms\' tales \"among the few common-property books upon which Western culture can be founded.\" The methodology for gathering stories did not include sorties into the woods, as is often picturesquely believed. The Grimms\' sources generally came to them, and some stories were already written down, such as \"The Juniper Tree,\" sent to them by painter Philip Otto Runge. In their first edition, the Grimms wrote for a mainly adult audience. It was only after Edgar Taylor\'s English translation of their work in 1823 was successful with children that they made revisions to sanitize the German stories. For example, their first version of \"Rapunzel\" openly referred to her pregnancy (outside marriage), but in the revised version, she simply fattens. Yet violence was not necessarily minimized. The French Cinderella, Cendrillon, in Charles Perrault\'s tale, forgives her stepsisters and finds good husbands for them. But in the Grimms\' punitive version, Cinderella\'s helper- birds blind the sisters by pecking out their eyes. Violence notwithstanding, the popularity of the Grimms\' collected tales has endured, and they have sustained multiple interpretations and rewrites in various media over the years. The romantic depiction of \"Once upon a time\" continues to manifest inextinguishable truths, which, along with the allure of a happy and harmonious ending, appeal across the generations. Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm Known as the Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) were celebrated German academics, cultural researchers, linguists, and lexicographers. The oldest surviving sons of a family of six children, they were raised in Hanau, Hesse. Despite poverty following the death of their lawyer father, they were educated at the University of Marburg, thanks to a well-connected aunt. The Grimms are credited with developing an early methodology for collecting folk stories that are now the basis of folklore studies. They were also notable philologists (studying the language in written historical sources). Both brothers also worked on a monumental (32-volume) German dictionary, which was unfinished in their lifetimes.