TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmiesing,Ann
TI  - Disability, deformity, and disease in the grimms' fairy tales /Ann Schmiesing
T2  - Series in fairy-tale studies
SN  - 9780814338421
AV  - GR166 .D573 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Detroit, MI
PB  - Wayne State University Press
KW  - Kinder- und Hausmärchen
KW  - Fairy tales
KW  - Germany
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Abnormalities, Human, in literature
KW  - Diseases in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Able-bodied aesthetics? : the Grimms' preface to the Kinder-und Hausmärchen --; The simulacrum of wholeness : prosthesis and surgery in "The three army surgeons" and "Brother Lustig" --; Gender and disability : the Grimms' prostheticizing of "The maiden without hands" and "The frog king or Iron Henry" --; Cripples and supercripples : the erasure of disability in "Hans my hedgehog," The donkey," and "Rumpelstiltskin" --; "Overcoming" disability in the Thumbling, Dummy, and Aging Animal Tales; 2; b
N2  - "Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes various representations of disability in the tales and also shows how the Grimms' editing (or "prostheticizing") of their tales over seven editions significantly influenced portrayals of disability and related manifestations of physical difference, both in many individual tales and in the collection overall"--Publisher
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