The hard facts of the Grimms' fairy tales /

"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 tran...

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主要作者: Tatar, Maria, 1945- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
版:Expanded edition with a new preface by the author.
丛编:Princeton classics ; 39.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv36zr2z
书本目录:
  • Preface to the Printceton classics edition
  • Preface (2003)
  • Preface
  • I. Children's literature?
  • Sex and violence : the hard core of fairy tales
  • Fact and fantasy : the art of reading fairy tales
  • Victims and seekers : the family romance of fairy tales
  • II. Heroes
  • Born yesterday : the spear side
  • Spinning tales : the distaff side
  • III. Villains
  • From nags to witches : stepmothers and other ogres
  • Taming the beast : Bluebeard and other monsters
  • Epilogue. Getting even
  • Appendix A. Six fairy tales from the nursery and household tales, with commentary
  • Appendix B. Selected tales from the first edition of the nursery and household tales
  • Appendix C. Prefaces to the first and second editions of the nursery and household tales
  • Appendix D. English titles, tale numbers, and German titles of stories cited.