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

by Maria Tatar

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691000883

ISBN13:9780691000886

Release Date:October 1993

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:332 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory European Folklore & Mythology History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Teen & Young Adult

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