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References to Folklore / Fairy Tales

Bluhm, Lothar. Fairy Tales as Literature of Literature : the “Kinder- Und Hausmärchen” by the Brothers Grimm. Berlin, Germany: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

"In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the well-known fairy tale narratives, in the course of the editing process by the Brothers Grimm, essentially by Wilhelm Grimm. By means of a series of model studies -- including Rapunzel, Jorinde und Joringel and Der Jude im Dorn -- it is shown that the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, contrary to their traditional assessment as 'folk tales', are of literary origin and have a literary character themselves."--Provided by Publisher.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc, 2014.

Brockmann, Stephen. A Critical History of German Film. Second edition. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2020.

Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen; Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

Foster, Michael Dylan, and Jeffrey A. Tolbert. The Folkloresque : Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World. Edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016.

Freud, Sigmund, D. E. Oppenheim, James Strachey, and D. E. (David Ernst) Oppenheim. Dreams in Folklore. New York: International Universities Press, 1958.

Content: Dreams in folklore / by Sigmund Freud and D. E. Oppenheim translated from the original German by A. M. O. Richards ; edited with an introduction by James Strachey -- Traume im Folklore : the original German text / von Sigm. Freud und Prof. Ernst Oppenheim.

Grimm, Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm, W. H. Van der Smissen, Friedrich Schiller, and W. H. (William Henry) Van der Smissen. Kinder- Und Hausmärchen Der Gebrüder Grimm. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1888. 

Selected and edited with English notes, glossary and a grammatical appendix by W.H. van der Smissen. Full text available online in HathiTrust.

Morton, Timothy. Ecology Without Nature : Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Schwabe, Claudia, and Christa Jones. New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales. Edited by Claudia (Claudia Mareike Katrin) Schwabe and Christa Jones. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016.

"Invaluable hands-on materials and pedagogical tools from an international group of scholars who share their experience in folk and fairy tales' texts and films in a wide range of academic settings. Groundbreaking scholarly perspectives on how to teach fairy tales in a variety of courses and disciplines "--Provided by publisher.
Includes: The fairy tale forest as memory site : romantic imagination, cultural construction, and a hybrid approach to teaching the Grimms' fairy tales and the environment / Doris Mcgonagill -- Grimms' fairy tales in a political context : teaching East German fairy tale films / Claudia Schwabe

"Jack Zipes holds that the Grimms collected their tales from the oral traditions of peasants. This is simply not so. Rather, the Grimms took most of their tales from literary sources, rewriting them again and again. These tales are based on a great literary tradition, which this volume documents. The fairy tales - 116 in all - are grouped thematically and are accompanied by detailed introductions and annotations."--Review.

German Language

Jacobsen, Wolfgang, Anton. Kaes, and Hans Helmut. Prinzler. Geschichte des deutschen Films. 2., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004.