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Off with their heads!, fairy tales and the culture of childhood, Maria Tatar

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Off with their heads!, fairy tales and the culture of childhood, Maria Tatar
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Off with their heads!
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Maria Tatar
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fairy tales and the culture of childhood
Table Of 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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