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Romantic fairy tales / translated and edited by Carol Tully.
Van Pelt Library PT1327 .R5913 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--Germany--Translations into English.
- Fairy tales.
- Short stories, German--Translations into English.
- Short stories, German.
- German fiction--18th century--Translations into English.
- German fiction.
- German fiction--19th century--Translations into English.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 158 pages ; 20 cm.
- Other Title:
- Goethe, Tieck, Fouqué, Brentano
- Goethe, Tieck, Fouqué, Brentano, romantic fairy tales
- Place of Publication:
- London : Penguin Books, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- The German Romantic movement arose in response to the turmoil of the French Revolution and to the Enlightenment's emphasis on science and reason. Nostalgia for the past and a fascination with mysticism and medivialism caused a group of writers to adopt the foremost form of the Kunstmar or "literary fairy tales". This collection, vividly illustrating the development of German Romanticism, presents four of the genre's key texts that still have the power to enchant and disturb. Goethe's The Fairy Tale (1795) -- an ethereal story of prophecy and resurrection -- helped establish of the genre. Ludwig Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1792) is a dark story of incest and murder. Friedrich de la Motte Fouque describes the unhappy fate of a wood nymph with the soul of a woman in Undine (1811). In The Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817), Clemens Brentano tells the tale of young couple destroyed by a false sense of honor.
- Contents:
- The fairy tale / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Ekbert the fair / Ludwig Tieck
- Undine / Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
- The tale of honest Casper and fair Annie / Clemens Bretano.
- Contains:
- Blonde Eckbert
- Märchen
- Geschichte vom braven Kasper und dem shönen Annerl
- Undine
- ISBN:
- 0140447326
- OCLC:
- 43030790
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