Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zipes, Jack (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature.; Children's literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature-History and criticism.; European literature.; Europe, Central-History.; Popular Science in Literature.; Children's Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary History.; European Literature.; History of Germany and Central Europe.

This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reform...