The Turnip Princess: And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Autor Franz Xaver von Schonwerth Editat de Maria Tatar, Erika Eichenseeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2015
With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive.
Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre.
'Schönwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault' -The New Yorker
'Schönwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German-speaking world in the nineteenth century' -Daniel Drascek, University of Regensburg
Franz Xanver von Schönwerth (1810-1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in law
and the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folklore.
Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard, and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales.
Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of the
Franz Xaver von Schönwerth Society.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143107422
ISBN-10: 0143107429
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0143107429
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Maria
Tatar
chairs
the
program
in
folklore
and
mythology
at
Harvard.
She
is
the
author
of
many
acclaimed
books
on
folklore
and
fairy
tales,
as
well
as
the
editor
and
translator
ofThe
Turnip
Princess,
The
Annotated
Hans
Christian
Andersen,
The
Annotated
Brothers
Grimm,
The
Classic
Fairy
Tales:
A
Norton
Critical
EditionandThe
Grimm
Reader.She
lives
in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Recenzii
These
eminently
enjoyable
tales
offer
a
rich
new
take
on
the
material
of
the
Grimms
and
Andersen
...
The
tales
are
vigorous,
direct,
and
less
artful
then
those
of
the
Grimms,
suggesting
greater
authenticity,
closer
to
the
source