Hard Facts of the Grimms'' Fairy Tales - Expanded Edition

Zusatztext "For scholars! students! and general readers! Tatar's book is a balanced! sensitive! and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms' fairy tales." -Merle Rubin! Christian Science Monitor Informationen zum Autor Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her many books include Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (both Princeton). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Through

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• Authors: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maria Tatar, Maria M. Tatar, Tatar Maria
• Assisted by: Maria Tatar (Foreword), Maria M. Tatar (Foreword), Tatar Maria (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2019
• EAN: 9780691182995
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18299-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Princeton Classics; Princeton Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)