Klappentext This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types! including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar are twenty-four critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales! and new interpretations. A revised and updated selected bibliography is included. Zusammenfassung Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.

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Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Klappentext

This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar are twenty-four critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales, and new interpretations. A revised and updated selected bibliography is included.

Zusammenfassung
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.