Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar skillfully employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a folklorist, literary critic, and historian to examine the harsher aspects of these stories. She presents new interpretations of the powerful stories in this worldwide best-selling book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly.
- ISBN10 0691114692
- ISBN13 9780691114699
- Publish Date 26 May 2003 (first published 21 November 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/2575.html