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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.uwi05d
- 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, « 15. Clemens Brentano’s Fairytales », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.uwi05d
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The fairytales of Clemens Brentano were among the last works of German Romanticism to come to the notice of English-speaking children. Readers were already long familiar with the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm and Wilhelm Hauff, with several of Fouqué’s stories, especially his perennially appealing Undine and, a little less, the heroic Sintram, also with Chamisso’s Peter Schlemihl and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker. In addition there were selections from Musäus and their namesake Albert Lud...