#grimms tales

[dorkatamas]

Tomorrow!

[daphnaea]

fairytales: sleeping beauty

Then he mounted higher, and saw in the hall the whole court lying asleep, and above them, on their thrones, slept the king and the queen. And still he went farther, and all was so quiet that he could hear his own breathing; and at last he came to the tower, and went up the winding stair, and opened the door of the little room where Rosamond lay. And when he saw her looking so lovely in her sleep, he could not turn away his eyes; and presently he stooped and kissed her.

[dorkatamas]

Plath Zoomposium Talk: The Influence of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales in Sylvia Plath’s Life and Poetry

My presentation discusses the influence of the Grimms’ fairy tales in the poetry and life of Sylvia Plath which is a section of my PhD research on the supernatural in Plath’s poetry with a specific…

Here is my talk from yesterday’s event.

More to come in a work-in-progress publication (hopefully).

[buzzcoastin]

Anthropology: The Long Lives of Fairy Tales Mark Pagel, Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30124-5

Summary Anthropologists, borrowing techniques from evolutionary biology, have demonstrated that some common fairy tales can be traced back 5,000 years, or more, long before the development of written traditions.

"“Near a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife, and his two children; the boy’s name was Hänsel and the girl’s Gretel. They had very little to bite or to sup, and once, when there was great dearth in the land, the man could not even gain the daily bread….” Hänsel and Gretel, Grimm’s Fairy Tales"

When we read our children the story of Hänsel and Gretel, the names give away that it is a story of German origin. Or is it? Although Hänsel and Gretel is recorded in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, versions of the story exist in Baltic countries and in France. It’s been suggested that the story might have its origins in the 14th century great famine that struck Europe, or even earlier as a rite-of-passage tale in proto-Indo-European society. The prospect of oral traditions dating back thousands of years is startling. But now, a new study by Sara Graça da Silva and Jamshid Tehrani suggests that some common fairy tales can indeed be traced back to the origin of the Indo-European language family

[aalfonsoaguilera-blog]

Colección Roja Flor 

Panel de diseño

por: Alfonso Aguilera

[booksdoitbetter]

Packed a small portion of my tbr pile for college!

[pochahontasphoenix]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVzkXhY_mw8)

[raraaraan]

Reading Grimm's fairytales when I came upon these lines: "Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for a husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, "He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does;" and she said yes, and laid her hand in his." WTH RAPUNZEL UGGGGHHHHHHH