Medievalists.net » The Pied Piper of Hamelin http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Legend of the Pied Piper in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Grimm, Browning, and Skurzynski http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/30/legend-pied-piper-nineteenth-twentieth-centuries-grimm-browning-skurzynski/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/30/legend-pied-piper-nineteenth-twentieth-centuries-grimm-browning-skurzynski/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:28:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50780 This paper examines the changes that were made in the literary telling and retelling of the story of the Pied Piper during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, comparing the folktale “Die Kinder zu Hameln” (1816) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”(1842) by Robert Browning, and the book What Happened in Hamelin (1979), by Gloria Skurzynski.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/30/legend-pied-piper-nineteenth-twentieth-centuries-grimm-browning-skurzynski/feed/ 0 The Early German Settlement of North Eastern Moravia: and What the Pied Piper of Hamelin Had to Do with It http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:45:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46173 Long ago, primordial forests, dark and impenetrable, surrounded the mountainous frontier, which today separates northeastern Bohemia from large parts of northern Moravia in the Czech Republic. This area was situated north of the sparsely populated flatlands of the March (Morava) River. The stillness of the forests remained largely undisturbed by man.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/feed/ 0 Vilification of Identity and the Exilic Narrative: The Illustrated Pied Piper Story http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/vilification-of-identity-and-the-exilic-narrative-the-illustrated-pied-piper-story/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/vilification-of-identity-and-the-exilic-narrative-the-illustrated-pied-piper-story/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:42:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34056 This paper situates The Pied Piper story as an exilic narrative, part of a larger repertoire of stories that follow the romantic quest-myth formula, a formula that conveys a totla metaphor for the “journey of life”.

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