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wild things: the kids are alright
Songs from the wood….Forest Boy. The unusual but not unique story of the teenager who ambled out of a German forest speaking broken English and going by the name of Ray seemed to appeal and capture the imagination of Germans … Continue reading
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STORYTELLERS IN THE FOREST: Making Peace With The Power Of Death
Freud said of folk tales that they contain “the dreams of the human race.” One of these dreams is about the simple good prevailing over the subtle wicked. Most of the stories that the Grimm brothers collected are lay moral … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Brueghel the Elder, Carpenter, E.B. Taylor, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Lisa Falzon, Marc Chagall, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Pieter Brueghel, Richard Wagner, Robert Darnton, Saul Bellow, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Benfey, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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INTO AN ENCHANTED FOREST: Shadowy & Conjectural Images
“So that by that time the Grimm brothers arrived to began their collection, much material had overlain the remote mythology of the early tribes. Tales from thee four quarters, inventions from every level of society and all stages of Western … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Angela Carter, Arthur Rackham, Brothers Grimm, Clemens Bretano, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Emile Durkheim, Frankfurt School, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Kim Carpenter, Marianne Stokes, Max Muller, Nin Harris, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Robert Darnton, Robert Leinweber, Theodor Benfey, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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ONCE UPON A TIME…
Napoleon’s armies overran Germany….”but not only did we seek something of consolation in the past, our hope, naturally, was that this course of ours should contribute somewhat to the return of a better day.” While “foreign persons, foreign manners, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Byron, Clemens Brentano, Coleridge, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Schiller, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustaf Tengren, Gustav Mahler, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Marianne Stokes, Narianne Stokes, Novalis, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Richard Cleasby, Robert Leinweber, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Theodor Benfey, W.H. Auden, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE
“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading
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