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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992. 2nd printing. Examines how fairy tales were converted into children's literature and how they were shaped to produce literary texts that dedicated themselves to the socialization of the child. Thirty b&w Illustrations. Extensive Notes. Biblio. Index. 295 pp. Fine Hardcover w/ Fine dj. Seller Inventory # 315