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I would say that despite the claim on the back of the book, this isn't so much an overturning of fairy tale history. It is a book based agrument. Bottigheimer points out several misconceptions that people have about literary rates, in particular in Germany. The points about tracing the Grimms back to Basile and Straparola, however, didn't feel knew. This could be because I've read essays by Bottigheimer as well as Jack Zipesthat show connections. This books just takes it a logical step further.
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I obviously need to read more fairy tale lit crit.
I think by now, everyone knows that the Grimms' main source of stories was a middle class peer and not the country folk he later claimed. But I was still under the impression that those middle class sources had received their stories via oral transmission. Bottigheimer makes an extremely persuasive argument that the creation and transmission of these fairy tales (not the folk tales, but the rags-to riches stories of princes and queens) has always ...more
I think by now, everyone knows that the Grimms' main source of stories was a middle class peer and not the country folk he later claimed. But I was still under the impression that those middle class sources had received their stories via oral transmission. Bottigheimer makes an extremely persuasive argument that the creation and transmission of these fairy tales (not the folk tales, but the rags-to riches stories of princes and queens) has always ...more
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