Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

Name: Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Price: 45.89 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691000886

ISBN-10: 0691000883

ISBN-13: 9780691000886

Edition: 1992

Authors: Maria Tatar

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $49.93

Marketplace

1 new & used from $45.89

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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.

Book details

Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/24/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.29" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.990



List of Illustrations


Preface



Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature


II


III


IV


V


VI


VII


VIII


IX


X


Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index