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Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
by Maria M. Tatar
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780691000886 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
When Hansel and Gretel try to eat thw 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.
Synopsis:
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.
Table of Contents
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| Preface | ||
| I | Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature | 3 |
| II | "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales | 22 |
| III | Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales | 51 |
| IV | Wilhelm Grimm/Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After | 70 |
| V | Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins | 94 |
| VI | Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" | 120 |
| VII | Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight | 140 |
| VIII | "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes | 163 |
| IX | Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed | 190 |
| X | Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" | 212 |
| Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention | 229 | |
| Notes | 239 | |
| Select Bibliography | 273 | |
| Index | 289 |
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780691000886
- Subtitle:
- Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Location:
- Princeton, N.J.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literature
- Subject:
- Children's Literature
- Subject:
- History, criticism and surveys
- Subject:
- Children's stories
- Subject:
- Folklore & Mythology - Folklore
- Subject:
- Fairy tales
- Subject:
- European - General
- Subject:
- Folklore and children.
- Subject:
- European
- Subject:
- Comparative Literature
- Copyright:
- 1993
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series Volume:
- no. 86-2
- Publication Date:
- October 1993
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- College/higher education:
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 328
- Dimensions:
- 9 x 6 in 16 oz
