ROMANTICISM and GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES.pptx

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1. ROMANTICISM Grimm’s Fairy Tales

2. J.M.W. Turner, "Valley of Aosta : Snowstorm, Avalanche and Thunderstorm," 1836/37. Oil on canvas, 92.2 x 123 cm. Frederick T. Haskell Collection, Art Institute of Chicago. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

3. What is Romanticism? Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.

4. individual subjective irrational imaginative personal spontaneous emotional visionary transcendental

5. Fairy Tales created by a French writer Madame d’Aulnoy in the late 17th century written in plain and simple styles using mainly straightforward imagery. without or rarely using poetic or literary references and realism

6. Mabinogion (1350-1410) The Mabinogion is a collection of eleven tales of early Welsh literature and draws upon the mystical word of the Celtic people intertwining myths, folklore, tradition and history.

7. Charles Perrault -a French poet, prose writer, and storyteller -best remembered for his collection of fairy stories for children, Contes de ma mère l’oye (1697; Tales of Mother Goose).

8. Johann Karl August Musäus a German satirist and writer of fairy tales, remembered for his graceful and delicately ironical versions of popular folktales. one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen , a collection of German fairy tales retold as satires. (1782-1787)

9. Kalevala Finnish national epic compiled from old Finnish ballads, lyrical songs, and incantations that were a part of Finnish oral tradition. compiled by Elias Lönnrot (1835-49) the dwelling place of the poem’s chief characters, is a poetic name for Finland, meaning “land of heroes.”

10. Peter Christen Asbjornsen & Jorgen Moe - published Norske folkeeventyr (Norwegian Folktales) in 1841, which is a landmark in Norwegian literature and influenced the Norwegian language.

11. Angela Carter - English novelist Angela Carter wrote The Bloody Chamber (1979) to challenge the traditional folktale portrayals of women.

12. Grimm’s Fairytales written into one written text; cultural traditions such as oral history, fairy tales, and popular briefs are compiled since the Middle Ages. represents the most magnificent body of stories collected in Europe and is the most widely translated and read. made when Grimm brothers engage on an academic project to identify and preserve the spirit of the people in recording fairy tales being told across their culture an epic romantic venture

13. Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - were celebrated German academics, cultural researchers, linguists, and lexicographers. -credited with developing an early methodology for collecting folk stories that are now the basis of folklore studies. -notable philologists (studying the language in written historical sources). -both also worked on a monumental (32-volume) German dictionary, which was unfinished in their lifetimes.

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