The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Maria Tatar
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
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.
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Briar Rose (novel), Fiction, Humiliation, Mutilation, Dorothea Viehmann, Anecdote, Charles Dickens, Tall tale, Trickster, The Telling, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, The Uses of Enchantment, Wilhelm Grimm, Mother, Allusion, The Various, Jacob Grimm, Cinderella, Folk and Fairy Tales, The Goose Girl, The Three Spinners, Oral tradition, Stith Thompson, Random House, Coffin, Vladimir Propp, In the Woods, The Old Witch, Household, Illustration, Bleak House, Bruno Bettelheim, Golden Hair (fairy tale), Storytelling, Mary's Child, Child abandonment, Hansel and Gretel, Literary criticism, The Juniper Tree (fairy tale), Fairy tale, Hans My Hedgehog, Protagonist, Poetry, Cruelty, Stepmother, Sibling, Literature, Cannibalism, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Narrative, Jack Zipes, Fledgling (novel), Decapitation, Incest, Infanticide, Stepfamily, Little Red Riding Hood, Suckling pig, Russian fairy tale, Pity, Folklore, Nuclear family, King Thrushbeard, Cautionary tale, Seven Dwarfs, Prose, Rumpelstiltskin, Simpleton (stock character), The True Bride