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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.6fdkqj
- isbn: 9781906924102
- eisbn: 9781906924119
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folktales tales Germany tradition fiction moral tales didactic tales religious tales historical tales First World War Franco-Prussian War Thirty Years War German history Literature LIT009000 DSYSujets proches
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David Blamires, « 12. The Folktale Tradition in Germany », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.6fdkqj
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Although Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm now dominate discussion of folktales and fairytales, they were far from being the only ones concerned with collecting and publishing such material in Germany during the nineteenth century. The Grimms had separated the traditional tales that they were interested in into two broad categories – Märchen and Sagen. Märchen are basically fictional in character and include tales of magic (what we usually call fairytales), comic, religious, nursery and animal tales, w...