Similar Products

Off With Their Heads - Be Good (CD)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Grimm Reader - by Maria Tatar (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Enchanted Hunters - by Maria Tatar (Hardcover)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Their Dogs Came with Them - by Helena Maria Viramontes (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales - (Annotated Books) by Maria Tatar (Hardcover)

< 3 ay

Target USD

In Over Their Heads, 2 - (Under Their Skin) by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue - by Paul Bowles (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales - (Princeton Classics) by Maria Tatar (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Neverending Stories - (Princeton Legacy Library) by Ann Fehn & Ingeborg Hoesterey & Maria Tatar (Hardcover)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Tatar Empire - by Danielle Ross (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target30.00 USD

Load more

Products of same category from the store

Off Ramp: God's Exit from Abuse, 3 - by Deborah Silva (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Selling the Invisible - by Harry Beckwith (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target15.39 USD

Hot Rod Body and Chassis Builder's Guide - (Motorbooks Workshop) by Dennis W Parks (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target25.99 USD

A Whale Hunt - by Robert Sullivan (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Adonis Complex - by Harrison G Pope & Roberto Olivardia & Katherine A Phillips (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards - by Jay Feldman (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Writing of Fiction - by Edith Wharton (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The First Air War - by Lee Kennett (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Lead . . . for God's Sake! - by Todd Gongwer (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Mission - by Ash Dykes (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Darwin Devolves - by Michael J Behe (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Product info

<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>As provocative and stimulating as her <i>The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales</i>, this book should give a salutary shock to everyone who brings children and tales together, convincing them that every interpretation is a rewriting' and encouraging them to identify what is transmitted in the stories we tell children.'-- "Library Journal"<br><br>Winner of the 1992 Book Prize in Literature, German Studies Association<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Maria Tatar</b> is Professor of German Literature at Harvard University.

Price History