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THE FADING ORIGINALITY OF ART THE FADING ORIGINALITY OF ART - The reason for the editions  Hey dear all,   Hope you’ve read the previous post—if not, please go through that before reading this one. Every text, regardless of genre, goes through extensive editing and is often republished multiple times. These edits are usually influenced by the prevailing socio-political context, religious beliefs, and cultural values of the time. In the early stages, the Brothers Grimm didn’t have a specific target audience in mind. However, as their tales gained popularity, they were increasingly read and told to children, as well as adults. Because of their growing appeal among children, the Grimms revised many stories that originally contained explicit content and brutal violence. Later editions became more child-friendly. They removed certain stories and added new ones to better suit their evolving audience. One of the primary purposes of publishing these folk tales was to preserve Germa...

  THE FADING ORIGINALITY OF ART [Part 1] For the past few days, the one thing that has been surrounding my mind is ‘‘originality’’. THE FADING ORIGINALITY OF ART.  Hey dear all, hope you guys are doing well and great. It's been more than a week since we started discussing the Brothers Grimm's tales in our children's literature classes. The discussion is based on their writing of the tales, their writing style, and the differences between the earlier edition and the later editions of their tales. We were discussing from the text Introduction: rediscovering the original tales of the Brothers Grimm. Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were known for their famous work ‘‘Kinder- und Hausmärchen’’, which is a collection of German folk tales. The tales aren’t originally from them; they collected them through various means. From homemakers, young women and from various other people. They didn’t collect the stories by going out. It all came to them on their table. They wrote the stor...