Fairest of Them All - Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters

Versions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm alongside other tellings, inviting readers to experience anew a beloved fantasy of melodrama and imagination.

Info autore

Maria Tatar is the author of Enchanted Hunters, the editor and translator of annotated editions of works by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, and the editor of an annotated edition of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. She is the John L. Loeb Research Professor of Folklore and Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Riassunto

Versions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm alongside other tellings, inviting readers to experience anew a beloved fantasy of melodrama and imagination.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Maria Tatar, Tatar Maria
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780674271128
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27112-8
• Pagine: 240
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Spiritualità > Scienze e culture antiche; Narrativa > Romanzi > Fiabe, saghe, leggende; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Myth & legend told as fiction, Literary studies: general, Literary reference works, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales