Zipes, J. (2013). The Golden Age of Folk & Fairy Tales. USA: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., p.xxxiii.
One of the books I got out about the Brothers Grimm drew a parallel with what I've been reading about Campbell's functions of myth & storytelling patterns etc...
On discussing the 'pure German' nature of the Grimm's tales...The Grimms recognising in their collecting of stories that their tale types could be found in many other countries across Europe.
'Undoubtedly, the tales revealed more about the particular conditions experienced by the storytellers about their "national" identity. At the same time, they also reflected and continued to reflect that humans throughout the world invent and use stories in very similar ways to expose and articulate common problems and struggles as well as their wishes to overcome them.'
'This human urge to tell and to share experiences so that listeners might find ways to adapt to the world and improve their situation account for the utopian current especially in wonder and fairy tales. We tell and retell tales that become relevant in our lives, and the tales themselves form types that we use in our telling or reading to address carious issues such as child abandonment, the search for immortality, sibling rivalry, incest, rape, exploitation and so on.'
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