Biography

Michaelis-Jena, Ruth. The Brothers Grimm. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970, 212 p.

Critical biography including an assessment of the Children's and Household Tales and its influence.

Criticism

Dundes, Alan. "The Psychoanalytic Study of the Grimms' Tales with Special Reference to 'The Maiden Without Hands' (AT 706)." The Germanic Review 62, No. 2 (Spring 1987): 50-65.

Emphasizes the critical value of psychoanalytic readings of the Grimms' tales and offers a principally Freudian interpretation of "The Maiden Without Hands."

Ellis, John M. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, 214 p.

Maintains that "the Grimms deliberately, persistently, and completely misrepresented the status of their tales," which they claimed were faithful reproductions of oral stories recited by German folk storytellers.

Haase, Donald. "Motifs: Making Fairy Tales Our Own: Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales." In Once Upon a Folktale: Capturing the Folklore Process with Children, edited by Gloria T. Blatt, pp. 63-77. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

Investigates nationalistic and psychoanalytic views of fairy tales, arguing that a process of continual alteration is integral to the vitality of folklore.

Hennig, John. "The Brothers Grimm and T. C. Croker." The Modern Language Review XLI, No. 1 (January 1946): 44-54.

Dicusses the relationship of T. C. Croker and the Grimms, who translated Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland into German.

Lüthi, Max. The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982, 173 p.

Studies the significance, formal traits, and stylistic features of fairy tales, with substantial emphasis on the Grimms' stories.

Mallet, Carl-Heinz. Fairy Tales and Children: The Psychology of Children Revealed through Four of Grimms' Fairy Tales, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Schoken Books, 1984, 213 p.

Explores four representative tales—including "Hansel and Gretel" and "Little Red Riding Hood"—using the methods of dream interpretation.

McGlathery, James M. Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991, 226 p.

Assesses matters of sexual desire in the fairy tales retold by the Grimms, Giambattista Basile, and Charles Perrault.

——. Grimms' Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1993, 135 p.

Examines folktale criticism in general and surveys criticism and interpretation of the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales.

Mieder, Wolfgang. "Grim Variations: From Fairy Tales to Modern Anti-Fairy Tales." The Germanic Review 62, No. 2 (Spring 1987): 90-102.

Analyzes modern reinterpretations and renderings of well-known Grimm fairy tales.

Rusch-Feja, Diann. The Portrayal of the Maturation Process of Girl Figures in Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995, 288 p.

Links the popularity of the Grimms' fairy tales to their importance "as transmitters of symbolic structures and content in the portrayal of female maturation."

Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1987, 277 p.

Psychoanalytical and thematic study of the Children's and Household Tales. Tatar also traces the editorial and publication history of this work.

Taylor, Peter, and Hermann Rebel. "Hessian Peasant Women, Their Families and the Draft: A Social-Historical Interpretation of Four Tales from the Grimm Collection." Journal of Family History 6, No. 4 (Winter 1981): 349-56.

Studies the relationship between symbolic content and social narrative in folklore using four of the Grimms' fairy tales as examples.

Ward, Donald. "The German Connection: The Brothers Grimm and the Study of Oral' Literature." Western Folklore 53, No. 1 (January 1994): 1-26.

Considers the paradigms of German folkloristics that are the legacy of the Brothers Grimm.

Zipes, Jack. "Who's Afraid of the Brothers Grimm? Socialization and Politization through Fairy Tales." The Lion and the Unicorn 3, No. 2 (Winter 1979): 4-56.

Contends that the Grimms' revised the fairy tales they collected to emphasize the interests of bourgeois socialization.

Additional coverage of the lives and careers of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 90; Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 3; and Something About the Author, Vol. 22.