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sueatt
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(10/28/04 7:22 am)
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Dissertation on Maerchen - advice needed
I am studying german romanticism as one of my final year courses and have decided to write my dissertation about fairy tales or literary fairy tales from this era. I would be grateful for any suggestions of background reading for this topic, or even suggestions for interesting research areas around the topic of the Kuenstmaerchen in german literature. I was perhaps going to look at tales written by female authors such as Bettina and Gisela von Arnim. It's such a broad subject area that I need to narrow down my research focus in some way and was hoping for some feedback!
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Terri Windling
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(10/30/04 12:10 am)
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Re: Dissertation on Maerchen - advice needed
I've personally always wanted to know more about the Kaffeterkreis, a group of women intellectuals gathered in Berlin (beginning in 1843) to create a women’s conversation salon modeled after the fairy tale salons of Paris. They met weekly between 1843 and ’48, when the Revolution forced them to disband. The women of the Kaffeterkreis presented stories, art work, musical compositions – all submitted anonymously – and performed their own fairy tale plays for audiences that included the Prussian monarch. Gisela von Arnim was a founding member of this group.
I can't remember where I first heard about the Kaffeterkreis....
Probably either in the collection of German women's fairy tales
published by Jeannine Blackwell and Shawn Jarvis, or else in one
of the articles on German women's fairy tales in Marvels & Tales
(www.langlab.wayne.edu/MarvelsHome/Marvels_Tales.html)
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Don
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(11/1/04 7:31 am)
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Re: Dissertation on Maerchen - advice needed
There's an essay by Shawn Jarvis on the Kaffeterkreis and a fairy tale by Gisela and Bettina von Arnim in The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales. There's more information about and texts by German women writers of the Romantic period in Jeannine Blackwell's essay in Fairy Tales and Feminism. The bibliiographies in that book also provide leads to other important work.
Edited by: Don at: 11/1/04 7:35 am
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