The Hard Facts Of The Grimms' Fairy Tales
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work in folklore scholarship, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales cuts through centuries of sentimentality to reveal the dark, often violent underpinnings of the stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Maria Tatar argues that the sanitised versions familiar to modern readers obscure a rich and troubling original text saturated with mutilation, death, and psychological complexity. Drawing on historical, psychoanalytic, and cultural frameworks, Tatar presents a rigorous and revelatory analysis of how the Brothers Grimm shaped — and reshaped — their tales across successive editions to reflect shifting social anxieties and moral agendas. The result is an authoritative and unsettling reassessment of narratives that have defined childhood imagination for over two centuries, illustrating how fairy tales function as powerful instruments of cultural conditioning and societal control.
Author: Maria Tatar
Format: Paperback
Published: 1987, Princeton University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work in folklore scholarship, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales cuts through centuries of sentimentality to reveal the dark, often violent underpinnings of the stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Maria Tatar argues that the sanitised versions familiar to modern readers obscure a rich and troubling original text saturated with mutilation, death, and psychological complexity. Drawing on historical, psychoanalytic, and cultural frameworks, Tatar presents a rigorous and revelatory analysis of how the Brothers Grimm shaped — and reshaped — their tales across successive editions to reflect shifting social anxieties and moral agendas. The result is an authoritative and unsettling reassessment of narratives that have defined childhood imagination for over two centuries, illustrating how fairy tales function as powerful instruments of cultural conditioning and societal control.