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Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

by Maria Tatar

2021-01-02 10:20:46

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When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch''s gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by th... Read more

When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch''s gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by their parents? Challenging Bruno Bettelheim and other critics who read fairy tales as enactments of children''s untamed urges, Maria Tatar argues that it is time to stop casting the children as villians. In this provocative book she explores how adults mistreat children, focusing on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners.

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File size10 X 7.75 X 0 in
Print pages332
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date October 24, 1993
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780691069432
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Maria Tatar
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Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her many books include Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and Lustmor...

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