{"title":"Maria M. Tatar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaria M. Tatar\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the rich landscape of folklore and fairy tales, offering insightful analyses that reveal the enduring power and complexity of these stories. Her work delves into the cultural and psychological layers behind folk narratives, illuminating themes that resonate across time and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations of classic tales and their darker undercurrents, blending \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e with elements of \u003cem\u003escience and nature\u003c\/em\u003e. Tatar’s writing invites a deeper appreciation of the stories that shape our imagination and understanding of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-hard-facts-of-the-grimms-fairy-tales-by-maria-tatar-9780691182995","title":"The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurder, 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 \u003ci\u003eNursery and Household Tales\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary tools of psychoanalysis and folklore while also providing historical context to explore the harsher aspects of these stories, presenting new interpretations of tales that engage in a kind of cultural repetition compulsion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo other book so thoroughly challenges us to rethink the happily-ever-after of these classic stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855004258540,"sku":"9780691182995","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691182995.jpg?v=1759260466"},{"product_id":"secrets-beyond-the-door-by-maria-tatar-9780691127835","title":"Secrets beyond the Door","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of Bluebeard's Wife—the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses—no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has remained alive for adults, allowing it to lead a rich subterranean existence in novels ranging from \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eLolita\u003c\/em\u003e and in films as diverse as Hitchcock's \u003cem\u003eNotorious\u003c\/em\u003e and Jane Campion's \u003cem\u003eThe Piano\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating work, Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's Wife has taken over time, particularly in Anglo-European popular culture. It documents the fortunes of Bluebeard, his wife, and their marriage in folklore, fiction, film, and opera, showing how others took the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn some tales, the wife is a deceiver; in others, she is a clever investigator. Earlier ages denounced Bluebeard's wife for her \"reckless curiosity\" and her \"uncontrolled appetite\"; our own times have turned her into something of a heroine, a woman who rescues herself—and often her marriage—through her detective work and psychological finesse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd as for Bluebeard? Once considered a one-dimensional brute, he has found renewed cultural energy both as a master criminal who kills in order to create a higher moral order and as an artist figure who must shield himself against intimacy to foster his creative powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant account of how one classic fairy tale has been continually reincarnated, \u003cem\u003eSecrets beyond the Door\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to both literary scholars and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432490877164,"sku":"9780691127835","price":75.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691127835.jpg?v=1774555384"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/maria-m-tatar.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}