Off With Their Heads Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
- List Price: $47.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
- Publish date: 12/01/1993
Description:
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance.
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