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.
This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar.
The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre.
Presents new translations of forty fairy tale classics in a volume that includes previously omitted tales and is complemented by hundreds of annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural complexities, and psychological effects ...
Collected here are 64 of the most popular stories by the Brothers Grimm with 55 black-and-white illustrations and photos, and a free online link to 62 audio files.
If Fitcher is a false representative of God on earth and if God does not exist, then Fitcher as a religious leader has amassed his power based on lies and stories. The political implications of Frost's novel are clear, especially at the ...
By combining a sociohistorical examination of the stories with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, the author reveals coherent patterns of motif, plot, and image and brings new insight into the moral and social vision of ...
Maria Tatar's book opens up an important discussion for readers seeking to understand the forces behind sexual violence and its portrayal in the cultural media throughout this century.
This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.
Now they realized that the king had devised something evil and meant to suffocate them. “He won't succeed!” said the man with the cap. “I'm going to let a frost come that will put the fire to shame and send it crawling away.
Das Märchen von dem Mädchen mit dem Holzbein. Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Wits ... Chotjewitz, Peter O. Kinder, Kinder! Ein Märchen aus sieben ... Der Nulltarif der Wichtelmänner: Märchen– und andere Verwirrspiele.Hamburg: Claasen, 1982.