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Off with their heads! : fairy tales and the culture of childhood /
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on prod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.