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Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) by Kay Turner (editor), Pauline Greenhill (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales ), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized, and bowdlerized the tales, publishing the seventh and final edition in 1857 with many of the sexual implications removed. However, the contributors in Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms demonstrate that the Grimms and other collectors paid less attention to ridding the tales of non-heterosexual implications and that, in fact, the Grimms' tales are rich with queer possibilities. Editors Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill introduce the volume with an overview of the tales' literary and interpretive history, surveying their queerness in terms of not just sex, gender and sexuality, but also issues of marginalization, oddity, and not fitting into society. In three thematic sections, contributors then consider a range of tales and their queer themes. In Faux Femininities, essays explore female characters, and their relationships and feminine representation in the tales. Contrib
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- Author
- Kay Turner (editor), Pauline Greenhill (editor)
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814338100
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Literary Fiction
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