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inulro26. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
In short: they took out all the sex, and not only left in, but sometimes amplified the violence.
This book outlines some of the patterns to be found in and some of the sources for the fairy tales in the Grimm brothers' Nursery & Household Tales (as opposed to the fables and folk tales, which are ignored here).
It's well written and would probably be more interesting to a reader who didn't already know as much of it as I did (odd, considering I didn't think I knew much on the subject).
In short: they took out all the sex, and not only left in, but sometimes amplified the violence.
This book outlines some of the patterns to be found in and some of the sources for the fairy tales in the Grimm brothers' Nursery & Household Tales (as opposed to the fables and folk tales, which are ignored here).
It's well written and would probably be more interesting to a reader who didn't already know as much of it as I did (odd, considering I didn't think I knew much on the subject).
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