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

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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Main Author: Tatar, Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2021]
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mrz 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (332 pages) 30 illus
ISBN:9780691214818
DOI:10.1515/9780691214818

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