Grimms' Tales Around the Globe - The Dynamics of Their International Reception (Paperback)

Grimms' fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms' Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe and North and Latin America to investigate the international reception of the Grimms' tales. The essays in this volume offer insights into the social and literary role of the tales in a number of countries and languages, finding aspects that are internationally constant as well as locally particular. In the first section, "Cultural Resistance and Assimilation", contributors consider the global history of the reception of the Grimms' tales in a range of cultures. In these eight chapters, scholars explore how cunning translators and daring publishers around the world reshaped and rewrote the tales, incorporating them into existing fairy-tale traditions, inspiring new writings and often introducing new uncertainties of meaning into the already ambiguous stories. Contributors in the second part, "Reframings, Paratexts, and Multimedia Translations", shed light on how the Grimms' tales were affected by intermedial adaptation when travelling abroad. These six chapters focus on illustrations, manga and film and television adaptations. In all, contributors take a wide view of the tales' history in a range of locales - including Poland, China, Croatia, India, Japan and France. Grimms' Tales around the Globe shows that the tales, with their paradox between the universal and the local and their long and world-spanning translation history, form a unique and exciting corpus for the study of reception. Fairy-tale and folklore scholars as well as readers interested in literary history and translation will appreciate this enlightening volume.

General

Imprint:	Wayne State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	June 2014
Editors:	Vanessa Joosen • Gillian Lathey
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-8143-3920-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-8143-3920-4
Barcode:	9780814339206

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