格林兄弟（RLE民俗学）（劳特里奇图书馆版：民俗学）

这是格林兄弟的第一本现代传记，于1970年首次出版。本书以18世纪末和19世纪的德国为背景，对他们进行了研究，展示了他们作为日耳曼语言学家的创始人、哥廷根七世的成员以及在德国浪漫主义者圈子内所处的社会地位。雅各布和威廉·格林是记录真实传统故事的先驱。这些故事经过逐步的修改，形成了它们流传下来的形式。即使最近的风俗习惯是把故事按原样讲出来，格林一家收藏的惊人流行在很大程度上还是要归功于兄弟俩的编辑工作。正如Michaelis Jena所指出的那样，格林一家的持久声誉很可能建立在这样一个事实上：他们坚持“真实记录”，把这位业余古董学家变成了专业民俗学家。Ruth Michaelis Jena为格林兄弟工作多年，并在德国的多家图书馆和博物馆获得了鲜为人知的资料。
The Brothers Grimm (RLE Folklore) (Routledge Library Editions: Folklore)
This is the first modern biography of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1970. It is a study of them in their background of late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and shows the position they held in their society as founders of Germanic philology, as members of the ‘Göttingen Seven’, and inside the circle of the German Romantics. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were pioneers in the recording of authentic traditional stories. Gradual revisions gave these tales the form in which they have come down to us. Even if more recently the custom has been to leave stories as they were told, the astonishing currency of the Grimms’ collection is due largely to the brothers’ editorial work. The Grimms’ lasting fame, as Michaelis-Jena points out, may well rest on the fact that by their insistence on ‘genuine and true recording’ they turned the amateur antiquarian into the professional folklorist. Ruth Michaelis-Jena has worked for many years on the Brothers Grimm, and has had access to little known material at various libraries and museums in Germany.

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