Grimm Brothers

I haven't read the entire thread, so I don't know if this was mentioned before. But weren't the tales collection of German folk tales the the Brothers collected and pieced together? I didn't think they wrote them.

Right on, V!

This is what Darnton writes about-- how the Grimm brothers appropriated the tales. So, yes, the Grimm brothers wrote them-- or more precisely wrote them down, and so many mistakenly confuse their project of collection and codification with (sorry about the pun) a fictional project of composition.

Of course, I am of the belief that no author ever really "composes" in a pure sense-- every work is borrowed or stolen, as per the thread on "Writing Tips" in "General Writing"

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Originally Posted by TodHackett

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Originally Posted by Doctor Boogaloo

Writing fiction is really a cross between time travel and detective work. Think back in your own life -- it's a goldmine.
Write using all of your senses. Let the reader smell the place.

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See? Just like I said-- find an author you like and steal his/her best stuff <wink>.

Because when you think about it, all writing is theft. Heck, all language is theft-- it wouldn't be language if it weren't! We hear words, or read them, and hey, presto-- they're ours!

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So, yeah. That's me, quoting me, quoting DB, quoting me. It's so cool! So referential! So meta-!

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Originally Posted by TodHackett

Right on, V!

So, yeah. That's me, quoting me, quoting DB, quoting me. It's so cool! So referential! So meta-!

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:lol:

Hi Tod. I haven't had a chance to say hello to you. Nice to have you on lit net. Is Lexington near Louisville. I've been to Loiusville and by Ft. Knox.

Lexington--my adopted home for (probably) the next six years or more, is roughly one hour south of Cincinnatti, one hour east of Louisville, three hours west of Charleston, WV, and four hours north of Nashville.

I absolutely love it here, and that's saying a LOT. I have lived in many places in my time, and none of them ever felt right the way Lexington does.

I also love it here on litnet. It's a good place to lick your wounds after dropping $25 on PartyPoker.com. Indeed, my communities, real or imagined, seem to proliferate as the days pass...

Good to know you, V. If you'd like to know more about me, just ask. Also, I recently posted to the Writing area-- take a look if you wish. And if you've posted anything to which you'd especially like to draw my attention, I'm all ears (eyes?).

Thanks Tod. Nice to have you here. Word of advice, don't gamble. The odds are against you. You play long enough, you will lose.

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Originally Posted by androo630

So I watched the Grimm brothers and started to think about the morals of their stories and what they really mean. Then I start to think back to how kids never really want to learn at young ages and just read and listen to fairy tales for their own enjoyment. So I did i bit of research on the Grimm Brothers and found this in their Nursery and Household Tales...

"...we see the basis for the moral precept or for the relevant object lesson that can be derived so readily from these tales; it was never their pupose to instruct, nor were they made up for that reason, but a moral grows out of them, just as good fruit develops from healthy blossoms without help from man."

So if the morals weren't made for children to learn, what were the made for? Just curious...


...but the way, the movie was a disgrace to the Grimm Brothers.

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They collected them, did they not? Since they were not the authors, they remarked that they noticed morals demonstrated in tales they presumed had been memorized and passed down for the sake of entertaining little ones. They seemed to see a Providence in these stories being in forms that would naturally work thoughtfulness into an innate moral instinct in thinking children.