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  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
    Maria Tatar
    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on t...
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    30,28 €

  • Spellbound
    Maria Tatar
    Franz Anton Mesmer’s concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers. Mesmer, who saw in his discovery the secret of health, had hoped to recover the harmony between man and nature by harnessing the power of magnetic fluids. In calling attention to the existence of a second self that surfaces in the hypnotic trance, Mesmer made h...
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    170,10 €

  • Spellbound
    Maria Tatar
    Franz Anton Mesmer’s concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers. Mesmer, who saw in his discovery the secret of health, had hoped to recover the harmony between man and nature by harnessing the power of magnetic fluids. In calling attention to the existence of a second self that surfaces in the hypnotic trance, Mesmer made h...
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    70,47 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
    Maria Tatar
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    103,14 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
    Maria Tatar
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    36,86 €

  • Secrets beyond the Door
    Maria Tatar
    The tale of Bluebeard’s Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has remained alive for adults, allowing it to lead a rich subterranean existence in novels ranging from Jane Eyre to Lolita and in...
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    47,39 €

  • Lustmord
    Maria Tatar
    In a book that confronts our society’s obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however,...
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    61,37 €

  • Off with Their Heads!
    Maria Tatar
    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 T...
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    56,82 €