covered over with clotted blood, on which lay the bodies of several dead women,

Open them all; go into each and every one of them, except that little closet, which I forbid you, and forbid it in such a manner that, if you happen to open it, you may expect my just anger and resentment."

this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard,

he already had been married to several wives, and nobody knew what had become of them.

For, when I kissed, her eyelids knew no stir

sometimes referring to her mirroras women do.

He stayed so long his hair turned greenand still he would not leave.The dwarfs took pity upon himand gave him the glass Snow White--

the hunter,

But iron slippers had already been put upon the fire, and they were brought in with tongs, and set before her. Then she was forced to put on the red-hot shoes, and dance until she dropped down dead.

Then he said, "Let me have it as a gift, for I cannot live without seeing Snow White. I will honor and prize her as my dearest possession.

"Snow White shall die," she cried, "even if it costs me my life."

"If you will take care of our house, cook, make the beds, wash, sew and knit, and if you will keep everything neat and clean you can stay with us and you shall want for nothing."

The cook had to salt them, and the wicked queen ate them, and thought she had eaten the lung and liver of Snow White.

she hated the girl so much. And envy and pride grew higher and higher in her heart like a weed, so that she had no peace day or night.

The tales in the first edition set a certain standard that collectors began to follow and still follow even today.

Snow White’s mother, not her stepmother, wants to kill the beautiful girl out of envy.

nothing to do with fairies or happy endings

Grimms’ first collection was shaped as an archaeological excavation and as a book for adults and for scholars

It was perhaps just the right time to record these tales since those people who should be preserving them are becoming more and more scarce

strictly speaking, “fairy tales.

"The only thing I wish for is to see you come home safely,"

But she was really far prettier and cleverer than they were; indeed, she was so lovely that she was always called Bella.

to amuse her father and brothers as well as she could, and to try to persuade her sisters to join her in dancing and singing.

But one day a most unexpected misfortune befell them. Their house caught fire and was speedily burnt to the ground, with all the splendid furniture, the books, pictures, gold, silver, and precious goods it contained; and this was only the beginning of their troubles. Their father, who had till this moment prospered in all ways, suddenly lost every ship he had on the sea, either by dint of pirates, shipwreck, or fire. Then he heard that his clerks in distant countries, whom he trusted entirely, had proved unfaithful; and at last from great wealth he fell into the direst poverty.

"my horse" referred to me, a living horse, and seemed as strange to me as the words "my land," "my air," "my water

defamiliarization

things are replaced by symbol

t is neither more nor less effective than ordinary or negative parallelism, comparison, repetition, balanced structure, hyperbole, the commonly accepted rhetorical figures,

metaphori

metonymic

magery as a practical means of thinking, as a means of placing objects within categories; and imagery as poetic, as a means of reinforcing an impression

Poetry is a special way of thinking; it is, precisely, a way of thinking in images

"Possibly not," said the duck who bit him, "but he's too big and strange, and therefore he needs a good whacking."

the destiny of a culture (usually a culture of the periphery, as Montserrat Iglesias Santos has specified)footnote5 is intersected and altered by another culture (from the core) that ‘completely ignores it’.

That’s the point: world literature is not an object, it’s a problem, and a problem that asks for a new critical method: and no one has ever found a method by just reading more texts. That’s not how theories come into being; they need a leap, a wager—a hypothesis, to get started.

Reading ‘more’ is always a good thing, but not the solution.footnote1

the literature around us is now unmistakably a planetary system.

villain,

FunctionsII andIII form a pairedelement.

Allfairy talesare ofone typeinregardtotheirstructure.

identicalactscanhave differentmeanings,

paradigmatic

takenoutof the "given"order andare regroupedinone or more analytic schema

What LIFE was really all about.

The judge took the wise man's advice, and the boy grabbed the apple with a laugh. Thus he was set free without any punishment.

decision to withdraw the tales from subsequent editions provides insights into the Grimms' generic conception of the fairy tale and debates about appropriate reading material for children.

The fairy way is a movement.

I began to translate old fairy tales into the new form – the new composition, the new aesthetic

Let’s say the Queen is a fairy tale, and the short-cut is the fairy way to her.

down this radical path, this beautiful path, this difficult path.

because he has no Pattern to follow in it, and must work altogether out of his own Invention.