Off with their heads! fairy tales and the culture of childhood
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TextPrinceton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press c1992Description: xxviii, 295 p.; illus.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-691-06943-3
- GR 550 .T38 1992
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1 Rewritten by adults: the inscription of children's literature. 2 "Teaching them a lesson": the pedagogy of fear in fairy tales. 3 Just desserts: reward-and-punishment tales. 4 Wilhelm Grimm/Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the art of dying happily ever after. 5 Daughters of Eve: fairy-tale heroines and their seven sins. 6 Tyranny at home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella". 7 Beauties and beasts: from blind obedience to love at first sight. 8 "As sweet as love": violence and the fulfillment of wishes. 9 Table matters: cannibalism and oral greed. 10 Telling differences: parents vs. children in "The juniper tree
'...takes a unique approach to fairy tales and revises many of Freud's and Bettelheim's notions about their relevance to childhood development.'
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