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Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Off with Their Heads Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Author: Maria Tatar
When Hansel and Gretel try to eat thw 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691000886
ISBN-10: 0691000883
Publication Date: 10/4/1993
Pages: 332
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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