The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

Expanded Edition

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Theory, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar ISBN: 9780691184289
Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication: January 22, 2019
Imprint: Princeton University Press Language: English
Author: Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar
ISBN: 9780691184289
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication: January 22, 2019
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Language: English

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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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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