The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
204
Utgivningsdatum
2000-07-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
OUP USA
Illustratör/Fotograf
9 line illustrations
Illustrationer
9ill.
Dimensioner
242 x 164 x 22 mm
Vikt
522 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
9:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780195136074

The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove

The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales

av G Ronald Murphy
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2000-07-01
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The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the developing child. In this book, Ronald Murphy takes five of the best-known tales ("Hansel and Gretel," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Sleeping Beauty") and shows that the Grimms saw them as Christian fables. Murphy examines the arguments of previous interpreters of the tales, and demonstrates how they missed the Grimms' intention. His own readings of the five so-called "magical" tales reveal them as the beautiful and inspiring "documents of faith" that the Grimms meant them to be. Offering an entirely new perspective on these often-analysed tales, Murphy's book will appeal to those concerned with the moral and religious education of children, to students and scholars of folk literature and children's literature, and to the many general readers who are captivated by fairy tales and their meanings.
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Melanie McDonagh, The Tablet 23/12/00. Fr Ronald Murphy has done the Brothers Grimm a great service. He has put their stories into the context of their Christianity, something which wouldn't be necessary except in an invincibly secular age such as ours is. But he has done more than that. He has brought home to us the essentially hospitable nature of the stories.

Melanie McDonagh, The Tablet 23/12/00. perhaps the best service this admirable book can do is to send us back to the stories themselves. Many of them are unread, or known only by courtesy of Walt Disney. As Ronald Murphy makes clear, they can still tell us, grown-ups and children, much about what it means to be human.

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<br>Ronald G. Murphy is Professor of German at Georgetown University.<br>

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