Terrors of Childhood in Grimms' Fairy Tales

W.G. Kudszus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

149 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-5655-3 (ISBN)

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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 border zone, 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.9.2005
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; 53
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; 53
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Sprach- und Wörterbuch / Deutsch
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-5655-1 / 0820456551
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-5655-3 / 9780820456553
Zustand	Neuware