Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales /

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"Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmiesing, Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Grimm, Wilhelm, > 1786-1859.
Grimm, Jacob, > 1785-1863.
Grimm, Jacob, > 1785-1863 > Criticism and interpretation.
Grimm, Wilhelm, > 1786-1859 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Kinder- und Hausmärchen.
Fairy tales.
Diseases in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Maladies dans la litterature.
Contes de fees > Allemagne > Histoire et critique.
Fairy tales > Germany > History and criticism.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Able-bodied aesthetics? : the Grimms' preface to the Kinder-und Hausmärchen
  • The simulacrum of wholeness : prosthesis and surgery in "The three army surgeons" and "Brother Lustig"
  • Gender and disability : the Grimms' prostheticizing of "The maiden without hands" and "The frog king or Iron Henry"
  • Cripples and supercripples : the erasure of disability in "Hans my hedgehog," The donkey," and "Rumpelstiltskin"
  • "Overcoming" disability in the Thumbling, Dummy, and Aging Animal Tales.

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