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...

The Fairest of Them All von Tatar, Maria

How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning...

The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores...

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales is a remarkable treasure trove, a work that celebrates the best-loved tales of childhood and presents them through the vision of Maria Tatar, a leading authority in the field of folklore and children's...

Our worldwide storytelling heritage is vast and varied and yet contains common threads, themes and motifs running throughout the many legends, whether they hail from the dusty plains of Africa or the cherry-blossom-blanketed hills of...

Leider scheint es ein Missverständnis zu geben, da "The Artificial-Silk Girl" nicht von Maria Tatar geschrieben wurde. Das Buch ist eigentlich ein Roman von der deutschen Autorin Irmgard Keun, der 1932 veröffentlicht wurde. "The...

"Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism" von Maria Tatar ist eine umfassende Sammlung klassischer Märchen aus verschiedenen Kulturen und Epochen. Das Buch enthält nicht nur die Texte der Märchen selbst, sondern auch kritische Analysen und...