Fairy Grandmothers: Images of Storytelling Events in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Typical nineteenth‐century German images of elderly female storytellers capture them in the act of relating Märchen to young children. When these images reached a mass public, they reinforced the idea of a timeless female oral tradition. As researchers of oral tales hardly ever recorded any actual f...

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Main Author: Willem de Blécourt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Radboud University Press in cooperation with Open Journals 2010-12-01
Series:Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise
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Online Access:https://test.openjournals.nl/relief/article/view/8991