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
Subjects:	fairy tales narrators images Germany nineteenth century
Online Access:	http://www.revue-relief.org/articles/10.18352/relief.544/

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title	Fairy Grandmothers: Images of Storytelling Events in Nineteenth-Century Germany
title_short	Fairy Grandmothers: Images of Storytelling Events in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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publisher	Radboud University Press in cooperation with Open Journals
series	Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise
issn	1873-5045
publishDate	2010-12-01
description	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 female storytellers, the images belonged for the most part to a romantic myth of Germanyʹs past. Towards the end of the century, artists started to produce more realistic paintings of female storytellers. This coincided with the growing popularity of fairy‐tale books which were indeed mostly read to children by women.
topic	fairy tales narrators images Germany nineteenth century
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Fairy Grandmothers: Images of Storytelling Events in Nineteenth-Century Germany

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