Off with Their Heads!
Maria Tatar
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
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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Misery (novel), Maternal insult, Apuleius, Satire, Wealth, Allerleirauh, Hans My Hedgehog, Incest, Resentment, Mrs., Inception, Laughter, Literature, Queen (Snow White), Horror fiction, Illustration, Bullying, Sibling, Suffering, Little Red Riding Hood, Fairy tale, Hans Christian Andersen, Cruelty, Hatred, Jack and the Beanstalk, Catskin, The Juniper Tree (fairy tale), Spouse, Struwwelpeter, Cannibalism, Rhymes for the Nursery, Adult, Child abandonment, Bruno Bettelheim, Jack Zipes, Charles Perrault, Desperation (novel), Irony, Narrative, Maurice Sendak, Mary's Child, Courtship, Household, Cruelty to animals, Protagonist, Baba Yaga, The Uses of Enchantment, Pentamerone, Oven, Cautionary tale, Hansel and Gretel, Obedience (human behavior), Rumpelstiltskin, Humiliation, Children's literature, Stepmother, King Thrushbeard, Humour, My Child, Decapitation, Infanticide, Cupid and Psyche, Gluttony, Poetry, Ribaldry, Didacticism, The History of the Fairchild Family, Child abuse, In the Woods, Misfortune (folk tale)