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Author: Maria M. Tatar ,
Maria M. Tatar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Volume: 39
ISBN: 9780691182995
ISBN 10: 069118299
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 22 January 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: English
Reviews
For scholars, students, and general readers, Tatar's book is a balanced, sensitive, and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms' fairy tales. -Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor A clear, imaginative and fascinating illumination of the stories we thought we knew. -Los Angeles Times Book Review Tatar takes detours into literary history here and into comparative anthropology there. What results is at once intelligently eclectic and refreshingly commonsensical, a thoughtful ramble through the dark childhood woods that haunt our adult dreams. -Carl Maves, San Francisco Chronicle The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales-related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon-is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader. -Janet Adam Smith, New York Review of Books
For scholars, students, and general readers, Tatar's book is a balanced, sensitive, and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms' fairy tales. --Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor A clear, imaginative and fascinating illumination of the stories we thought we knew. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Tatar takes detours into literary history here and into comparative anthropology there. What results is at once intelligently eclectic and refreshingly commonsensical, a thoughtful ramble through the dark childhood woods that haunt our adult dreams. --Carl Maves, San Francisco Chronicle The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales--related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon--is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader. --Janet Adam Smith, New York Review of Books
A clear, imaginative and fascinating illumination of the stories we thought we knew. --Los Angeles Times Book Review For scholars, students, and general readers, Tatar's book is a balanced, sensitive, and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms' fairy tales. --Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor Tatar takes detours into literary history here and into comparative anthropology there. What results is at once intelligently eclectic and refreshingly commonsensical, a thoughtful ramble through the dark childhood woods that haunt our adult dreams. --Carl Maves, San Francisco Chronicle The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales--related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon--is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader. --Janet Adam Smith, New York Review of Books
Author Information
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her many books include Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (both Princeton).
