Off with Their Heads!
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Off with Their Heads!

Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

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eBook - ePub

Off with Their Heads!

Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

About this book

When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch's gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by their parents? Challenging Bruno Bettelheim and other critics who read fairy tales as enactments of children's untamed urges, Maria Tatar argues that it is time to stop casting the children as villians. In this provocative book she explores how adults mistreat children, focusing on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter I: Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Childrenā€™s Literature
  10. Chapter II: ā€œTeaching Them a Lessonā€: The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales
  11. Chapter III: Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales
  12. Chapter IV: Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After
  13. Chapter V: Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins
  14. Chapter VI: Tyranny at Home: ā€œCatskinā€ and ā€œCinderellaā€
  15. Chapter VII: Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight
  16. Chapter VIII: ā€œAs Sweet as Loveā€: Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes
  17. Chapter IX: Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed
  18. Chapter X: Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in ā€œThe Juniper Treeā€
  19. Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention
  20. Notes
  21. Select Bibliography
  22. Index