Maria Tatar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Tatar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Tatar |
| SIGNATURE | TATAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fairy Tales Forever After
This essay juxtaposes the self-conscious iconoclasm of writers like Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood with the unconscious upcycling of fairy tales in films like Alex Garland’s Ex Machina and Jordan Peele’s Get Out . In the vast recycling project that provides new ways of making meaning out of the old, there is no sense in turning proprietary and insisting on acknowledging source material drawn from collective cultural capital. Still, it is impor…
The Fairest of Them All
Off with Their Heads!
Fairest of Them All
Lustmord
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
"Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairly tale figures as the subject matter for this 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 employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a fo…
Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Poetics of the Combat Zone
How can the carnage of war inspire poetry, and how do writers make sense of the combat zone when they are plunged into the fog of war? Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929) remains, even after ninety years, a touchstone for writers caught in the paradox of creating art from injury, bloodshed, and loss. Remarque's anti‐war novel challenged fantasies about war as a process of purification and rejuvenation, but it also brought back (a…
The annotated African American folktales
The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar assemble a ground-breaking collection of folktales, myths and legends that revitalise a vibrant African American past. Beginning with introductory essays and 20 seminal African tales, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics but also stories like Witches Who R…
Show and Tell
Feminists have targeted Sleeping Beauty as the most passive and repellent fairy-tale heroine of all, and many have done their best to make the story go away. Alerting us to the perils of the fairy tale, Madonna Kolbenschlag urges women to kiss Sleeping Beauty goodbye in her book of that title, and Jane Adams offers similar advice in Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty. Still, Sleeping Beauty and her German counterpart, Briar Rose, continue to turn up in loc…
Why Fairy Tales Matter
While it is preferable to render patients euthyroid prior to thyroidectomy for hyperthyroidism, results of this study suggest that when patients cannot tolerate ATDs, it is possible to perform thyroidectomy without increased risk of thyroid storm or intra- and postoperative complications
Lustmord. Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany
Lustmord
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place - both artistically and socia…
Lustmord
Lustmord
Neverending Stories. Toward a Critical Narratology
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
List of IllustrationsPrefaceIRewritten by Adults: Inscription of Children's Literature3IITeaching Them a Lesson: Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales22IIIJust Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales51IVWilhelm Grimm/Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After70VDaughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins94VITyranny at Home: Catskin and Cinderella120VIIBeauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight14…
The Many Names of Rumpelstiltskin
Jeannine Blackwell, The Many Names of Rumpelstiltskin: Recent Research on the Grimms' Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, The German Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1, Focus: Literature and History Mid-/Late 19th Century (Winter, 1990), pp. 107-112
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Unholy Alliances
ed from the text than on the figurative meaning of the superhuman personage who disrupts the tranquillity of Eckbert and Bertha's domestic life. Once critics agree that a text belongs to the category of the marvelous, they still have the privilege of disagreeing about the symbolic meaning of the supernatural agents or events in the text. The Old Woman, alias Walther, has been seen alternately as an agent of justice, as nature personified, as the …
Physiognomy in the European Novel
After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest in fiction from the 1790s onward, may be more fully appreciated when considered in the light of the p…
Rahel Varnhagen
Spellbound. Studies on Mesmerism and Literature
Why Fairy Tales Matter
While it is preferable to render patients euthyroid prior to thyroidectomy for hyperthyroidism, results of this study suggest that when patients cannot tolerate ATDs, it is possible to perform thyroidectomy without increased risk of thyroid storm or intra- and postoperative complications
Show and Tell
Feminists have targeted Sleeping Beauty as the most passive and repellent fairy-tale heroine of all, and many have done their best to make the story go away. Alerting us to the perils of the fairy tale, Madonna Kolbenschlag urges women to kiss Sleeping Beauty goodbye in her book of that title, and Jane Adams offers similar advice in Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty. Still, Sleeping Beauty and her German counterpart, Briar Rose, continue to turn up in loc…
Psychology and Poetics
(1973). Psychology and Poetics: J.C. Reil and Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 21-34
Deracination and Alienation in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg
A mood of disenchantment and defeat suffuses the introductory paragraphs of Tieck's Runenberg. While tending a device for snaring birds, a young hunter reviews the motives that led him to abandon his native village and to explore a new environment. Contemplating his present situation and comparing it to his past, he realizes with astonishment that life in the mountains replicates the repetitive existence he had hoped to leave behind in the plains…
Spellbound. Studies on Mesmerism and Literature
Rahel Varnhagen
Physiognomy in the European Novel
After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest in fiction from the 1790s onward, may be more fully appreciated when considered in the light of the p…
Unholy Alliances
ed from the text than on the figurative meaning of the superhuman personage who disrupts the tranquillity of Eckbert and Bertha's domestic life. Once critics agree that a text belongs to the category of the marvelous, they still have the privilege of disagreeing about the symbolic meaning of the supernatural agents or events in the text. The Old Woman, alias Walther, has been seen alternately as an agent of justice, as nature personified, as the …
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Many Names of Rumpelstiltskin
Jeannine Blackwell, The Many Names of Rumpelstiltskin: Recent Research on the Grimms' Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, The German Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1, Focus: Literature and History Mid-/Late 19th Century (Winter, 1990), pp. 107-112
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
List of IllustrationsPrefaceIRewritten by Adults: Inscription of Children's Literature3IITeaching Them a Lesson: Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales22IIIJust Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales51IVWilhelm Grimm/Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After70VDaughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins94VITyranny at Home: Catskin and Cinderella120VIIBeauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight14…
Neverending Stories. Toward a Critical Narratology
Lustmord
Lustmord. Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany
Lustmord
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place - both artistically and socia…
Lustmord
Why Fairy Tales Matter
While it is preferable to render patients euthyroid prior to thyroidectomy for hyperthyroidism, results of this study suggest that when patients cannot tolerate ATDs, it is possible to perform thyroidectomy without increased risk of thyroid storm or intra- and postoperative complications
Show and Tell
Feminists have targeted Sleeping Beauty as the most passive and repellent fairy-tale heroine of all, and many have done their best to make the story go away. Alerting us to the perils of the fairy tale, Madonna Kolbenschlag urges women to kiss Sleeping Beauty goodbye in her book of that title, and Jane Adams offers similar advice in Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty. Still, Sleeping Beauty and her German counterpart, Briar Rose, continue to turn up in loc…
The annotated African American folktales
The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar assemble a ground-breaking collection of folktales, myths and legends that revitalise a vibrant African American past. Beginning with introductory essays and 20 seminal African tales, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics but also stories like Witches Who R…
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
"Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairly tale figures as the subject matter for this 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 employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a fo…
Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Poetics of the Combat Zone
How can the carnage of war inspire poetry, and how do writers make sense of the combat zone when they are plunged into the fog of war? Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929) remains, even after ninety years, a touchstone for writers caught in the paradox of creating art from injury, bloodshed, and loss. Remarque's anti‐war novel challenged fantasies about war as a process of purification and rejuvenation, but it also brought back (a…
The Fairest of Them All
Off with Their Heads!
Fairest of Them All
Art (19 works) · Literature (14 works) · History (13 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (10 works) · Themes in Literature Analysis (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works)