Off with Their Heads! : : Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood / / Maria Tatar.

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 B...

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Off with Their Heads! : Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood / Maria Tatar.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I- Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature -- II- "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales -- III- Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales -- IV- Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After -- V- Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins -- VI- Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" -- VII- Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight -- VIII- "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes -- IX- Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed -- X- Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" -- Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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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.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh
Apuleius.
Boswell, John.
Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
Carter, Angela.
Chodorow, Nancy.
Dear Mili.
Dundes, Alan.
Elias, Norbert.
Fish, Stanley.
Foucault, Michel.
Gilligan, Carol.
Green, Rayna.
Herman, Judith Lewis.
Hogarth, William.
Jackson, Mary V.
Klotz, Volker.
Künzler, Rosemarie.
Locke, John.
Mallet, Carl-Heinz.
Miller, Alice.
Punch and Judy.
Randolph, Vance.
Rölleke, Heinz.
Scherf, Walter.
Thompson, Stith.
Travers, P L.
Weber, Eugen.
Yolen, Jane.
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Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
PREFACE --
I- Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature --
II- "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales --
III- Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales --
IV- Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After --
V- Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins --
VI- Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" --
VII- Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight --
VIII- "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes --
IX- Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed --
X- Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" --
Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention --
NOTES --
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX
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CONTENTS --
PREFACE --
I- Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature --
II- "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales --
III- Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales --
IV- Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After --
V- Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins --
VI- Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" --
VII- Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight --
VIII- "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes --
IX- Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed --
X- Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" --
Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention --
NOTES --
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX
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contents Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
PREFACE --
I- Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature --
II- "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales --
III- Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales --
IV- Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After --
V- Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins --
VI- Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" --
VII- Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight --
VIII- "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes --
IX- Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed --
X- Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" --
Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention --
NOTES --
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX
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