The Brothers Grimm
- Auteur: Ann Schmiesing (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: biografie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 360 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Ann Schmiesing The Brothers Grimm recensie, review en informatie
- “First-rate. . . . Rich in history and insight, this stands as the new authoritative biography on the famed fairy tale collectors.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “Ann Schmiesing’s The Brothers Grimm: A Biography is the most thorough and important study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the English-speaking world. It demonstrates that the talented brothers were more than collectors of wondrous fairy tales. They were gifted men of integrity once upon a revolutionary time. This book is a major accomplishment.” (Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota)
Flaptekst van de biografie van de gebroeders Grimm
More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages—more than any other German book—and the Brothers Grimm are among the top dozen most translated authors in the world. In addition to collecting tales, the Grimms were mythographers, linguists, librarians, civil servants, and above all the closest of brothers, but until now, the full story of their lifelong endeavor to preserve and articulate a German cultural identity has not been well known.
Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses. They produced a vast corpus of work on mythology and medieval literature, embarked on a monumental German dictionary project, and broke scholarly ground with Jacob’s linguistic discovery known as Grimm’s Law. Setting their story against a rich historical backdrop, Schmiesing offers a fresh consideration of the profound and yet complicated legacy of the Brothers Grimm.
Ann Schmiesing is professor of German and Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. She lives in Longmont, Colorado.