It is a well established fact that Grimms' fairy tales have been adapted by the Grimm brothers to suit the taste of middle class Europeans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Later, the National Socialists in Germany used the fairy tales to teach racism. This thesis presents the theoretical discussion in East Germany (the GDR, "DDR") which served as a rationale for using some of these fairy tales in the socialist education of children, and outlines the ideologically motivated selection of the fairy tales. The thesis analyzes the DDR regulations, which governed education in kindergarten and elementary school as well as in (after school) day-care programmes. It shows the extent to which Grimms' fairy tales were used in socialistic teaching of children. It is clear that the fairy tales selected and edited by the Grimm brothers to cater to the taste of the 19th century bourgeois were also considered effective in the teaching of values to children in a socialistic society. It appears that this aspect has not yet been addressed in modern western literary criticism.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.61050 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Menzel, Agnes M. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of German.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001284094, proquestno: AAIMM74627, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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