OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! by Maria Tatar ( 9780691000886 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
FAIRY TALES AND THE CULTURE OF CHILDHOOD

By:

Maria Tatar

Format:

Paperback

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£35.00

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£28.00

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ISBN 10:

0691000883

ISBN 13:

9780691000886

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Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 October, 1993

Pages:

332

Description:

Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses 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 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.

Illustrations:

30 illus.

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Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Book Prize in Literature of the German Studies Association 1992

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Returnable

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