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The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Turner, Kay, 1948-, Greenhill, Pauline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2012]
Colección:Series in fairy-tale studies.
Temas:
Grimm, Jacob, > 1785-1863 > Criticism and interpretation.
Grimm, Wilhelm, > 1786-1859 > Criticism and interpretation.
Grimm, Jacob, > 1785-1863.
Grimm, Wilhelm, > 1786-1859.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen.
Fairy tales > Germany > History and criticism.
Homosexuality in literature.
Queer theory.
Théorie queer.
Homosexualité dans la littérature.
Contes de fées > Allemagne > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Fairy tales.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: once upon a queer time / Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill
  • Whetting her appetite: what's a "clever" woman to do in the Grimms' collection? / Cristina Bacchilega
  • Nurtured in a lonely place: the wise woman as type in "The goose girl at the spring" / Kevin Goldstein
  • Queering kinship in "The maiden who seeks her brothers" / Jeana Jorgensen
  • "But who are you really?": ambiguous bodies and ambiguous pronouns in "Allerleirauh" / Margaret R. Yocom
  • A desire for death: the Grimms' Sleeping Beauty in The bloody chamber / Kimberly J. Lau
  • Happily ever after, according to our tastes: Jeanette Winterson's "Twelve dancing princesses" and queer possibility / Jennifer Orme
  • The lost sister: lesbian eroticism and female empowerment in "Snow White and Rose Red" / Andrew J. Friedenthal
  • Queering gender: transformations in "Peg Bearskin," "La Poiluse," and related tales / Pauline Greenhill, Anita Best, and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire
  • The true (false) bride and the false (true) bridegroom: "Fitcher's bird" and gendered virtue and villainy / Catherine Tosenberger
  • Becoming-mouse, becoming-man: the sideways growth of Princess Mouseskin / Joy Brooke Fairfield
  • Playing with fire: transgression as truth in Grimms' "Frau Trude" / Kay Turner
  • Destroying patriarchy to save it: Safdár Tawakkolí's Afghan boxwoman / Margaret A. Mills
  • "The grave mound": a queer adaptation / Elliot Gordon Mercer
  • Appendix: trans and drag in traditional folktales.

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