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Off with their heads! : Fairy tales and the culture of childhood /

By: Tatar, Maria, 1945-.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993, c1992Description: xxviii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691000883 (pbk.); 9780691000886:; 9780691000886 (pbk.).Subject(s): Fairy tales -- History and criticism | Folklore and children | Children's stories -- Psychological aspects | Fairy tales -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 398.21
Contents:
I. Rewritten by adults : the inscription of children's literature -- II. "Teaching them a lesson" : the pedagogy of fear in fairy tales -- III. Just desserts : reward-and-punishment tales -- IV. Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak : Dear Mili and the art of dying happily ever after -- V. Daughters of Eve : fairy-tale heroines and their seven sins -- VI. Tyranny at home : "Catskin" and "Cinderella" -- VII. Beauties and beasts : from blind obedience to love at first sight -- VIII. "As sweet as love" : violence and the fulfillment of wishes -- IX. Table matters : cannibalism and oral greed -- X. Telling differences : parents vs. children in "The juniper tree" -- Epilogue : reinvention through intervention.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 398.21 TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0076489
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.

I. Rewritten by adults : the inscription of children's literature -- II. "Teaching them a lesson" : the pedagogy of fear in fairy tales -- III. Just desserts : reward-and-punishment tales -- IV. Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak : Dear Mili and the art of dying happily ever after -- V. Daughters of Eve : fairy-tale heroines and their seven sins -- VI. Tyranny at home : "Catskin" and "Cinderella" -- VII. Beauties and beasts : from blind obedience to love at first sight -- VIII. "As sweet as love" : violence and the fulfillment of wishes -- IX. Table matters : cannibalism and oral greed -- X. Telling differences : parents vs. children in "The juniper tree" -- Epilogue : reinvention through intervention.

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