Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her many books include
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and
Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (both Princeton).
17 Ebooks by Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar: The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
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 …
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€24.99
Ann Fehn & Ingeborg Hoesterey: Neverending Stories
In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative structures that convey meaning in fiction, taking as their point of departure the narratological positions o …
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Maria Tatar: Spellbound
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 …
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Erich Maria Remarque & Larry Wolff: Eight Stories
A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation i …
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€16.99
Franz Xaver von Schonwerth: Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
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Maria Tatar: Off with Their Heads!
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 …
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€44.99
Maria Tatar: Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening …
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J. M. Barrie: The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)
‘Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age.’—Mark Twain One hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel
Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revis …
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€34.99
Hans Christian Andersen: The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (The Annotated Books)
A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, annotated by one of America’s leading folklore scholars. In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tat …
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Maria Tatar: The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.
Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers G …
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Henry Louis Gates & Maria Tatar: The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis St …
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Maria Tatar: Lustmord
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 …
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€47.99
Maria Tatar: The Heroine with 1001 Faces
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.
The Heroine with 1, 001 F …
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€17.99
Nancy L. Canepa: Teaching Fairy Tales
Teaching Fairy Tales edited by Nancy L. Canepa brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy-tale studies since its origins. This collection offers information on materials, …
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