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Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
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Allusion
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Bleak House
Briar Rose (novel)
Brothers Grimm
Bruno Bettelheim
Cannibalism
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Cautionary tale
Charles Dickens
Charles Perrault
Child abandonment
Cinderella
Coffin
Cruelty
Decapitation
Dorothea Viehmann
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Fairy tale
Fiction
Fledgling (novel)
Folk and Fairy Tales
Folklore
Golden Hair (fairy tale)
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Hans My Hedgehog
Hansel and Gretel
Household
Humiliation
Illustration
In the Woods
Incest
Infanticide
Jack Zipes
Jacob Grimm
King Thrushbeard
Literary criticism
Literature
Little Red Riding Hood
Mary's Child
Mother
Mutilation
Narrative
Nuclear family
Oral tradition
Pity
Poetry
Prose
Protagonist
Random House
Rumpelstiltskin
Russian fairy tale
Seven Dwarfs
Sibling
Simpleton (stock character)
Stepfamily
Stepmother
Stith Thompson
Storytelling
Suckling pig
Tall tale
The Goose Girl
The Juniper Tree (fairy tale)
The Old Witch
The Telling
The Three Spinners
The True Bride
The Uses of Enchantment
The Various
Trickster
Vladimir Propp
Wilhelm Grimm
Product details
- ISBN 9780691182995
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary tools of psychoanalysis and folklore while also providing historical context to explore the harsher aspects of these stories, presenting new interpretations of tales that engage in a kind of cultural repetition compulsion. No other book so thoroughly challenges us to rethink the happily-ever-after of these classic stories.
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 Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (both Princeton).
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