Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of ChildhoodWhen fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance. |
Contents
Rewritten by Adults The Inscription of Childrens Literature | 3 |
Teaching Them a Lesson The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales | 22 |
Just Desserts RewardandPunishment Tales | 51 |
Wilhelm Grimm Maurice Sendak Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After | 70 |
Daughters of Eve FairyTale Heroines and Their Seven Sins | 94 |
Tyranny at Home Catskin and Cinderella | 120 |
Beauties and Beasts From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight | 140 |
As Sweet as Love Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes | 163 |
Table Matters Cannibalism and Oral Greed | 190 |
Telling Differences Parents vs Children in The Jumper Tree | 212 |
Reinvention through Intervention | 229 |
Notes | 239 |
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Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood Maria Tatar No preview available - 1992 |
Common terms and phrases
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Drama, Narrative and Moral Education: Exploring Traditional Tales in the ... Joe Winston Limited preview - 1998 |
Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image Tina Pippin No preview available - 1999 |