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Maria Tatar

Off with Their Heads!

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Allerleirauh
Apuleius
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Baba Yaga
Bruno Bettelheim
Bullying
Cannibalism
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Catskin
Cautionary tale
Charles Perrault
Child abandonment
Child abuse
Children's literature
Courtship
Cruelty
Cruelty to animals
Cupid and Psyche
Decapitation
Desperation (novel)
Didacticism
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Fairy tale
Gluttony
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans My Hedgehog
Hansel and Gretel
Hatred
Horror fiction
Household
Humiliation
Humour
Illustration
In the Woods
Inception
Incest
Infanticide
Irony
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack Zipes
King Thrushbeard
Laughter
Literature
Little Red Riding Hood
Mary's Child
Maternal insult
Maurice Sendak
Misery (novel)
Misfortune (folk tale)
Mrs.
My Child
Narrative
Obedience (human behavior)
Oven
Pentamerone
Poetry
Protagonist
Queen (Snow White)
Resentment
Rhymes for the Nursery
Ribaldry
Rumpelstiltskin
Satire
Sibling
Spouse
Stepmother
Struwwelpeter
Suffering
The History of the Fairchild Family
The Juniper Tree (fairy tale)
The Uses of Enchantment
Wealth

Product details

  • ISBN 9780691000886
  • Weight: 482g
  • Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 1993
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
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.
About Maria M. Tatar | Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar is Professor of German Literature at Harvard University.