ISBN:
0820456551
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 149 S.
Series Statement:
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics 53
Series Statement:
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics
DDC:
398.2'092'243
Keywords:
Grimm, Jacob 〈1785-1863〉 Criticism and interpretation
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Grimm, Wilhelm 〈1786-1859〉 Criticism and interpretation
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen
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Children in literature
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Fairy tales History and criticism
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Gewalttätigkeit
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Deutschland
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen
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Gewalttätigkeit
Abstract:
"Questioning culturally predetermined consolidations of childhood experience, this study focuses on memory and affect on the verge of linguistic formulation. Fairy tale plots frequently function as cover-ups of a deeply rooted violence that expresses itself through sensibilities of the skin and in presymbolically charged cataclysms. In a narrative borderland, early linguistic and psychic events reemerge with primordial force. Split into seemingly irreconcilable opposites, good and evil engage in warfare with each other; cannibalism and infanticide take hold of family life. Four tales are presented here as related in 1857 by the Brothers Grimm, along with new translations. Through in-depth readings of these intricately interpersonal texts, this inquiry explores a frightful silence."--BOOK JACKET.
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