{"title":"Maria Tatar","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaria Tatar’s works delve into the rich tapestry of folklore and fairy tales, blending scholarly insight with accessible narrative. Readers will find explorations of timeless stories through cultural, psychological, and historical lenses, uncovering the layers beneath familiar tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer books invite contemplation on the enduring power of myth and storytelling within \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, while also touching on the natural themes that shape human experience. From re-examining the Grimm Brothers to revealing hidden narratives, Tatar offers a captivating journey into the world of legends and lore.\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":"the-heroine-with-1001-faces-by-maria-tatar-9781631498817","title":"The Heroine with 1001 Faces","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Heroine with 1,001 Faces\u003c\/em\u003e dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women's work—spinning, mending, and weaving—is carried out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbell's \u003cem\u003eThe Hero with a Thousand Faces\u003c\/em\u003e, with their male-centric emphases on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing from his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task, for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences around the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives and charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo, Luke Skywalker, or Harry Potter, Campbell's archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honour rather than a mark of shame, and how their \"mischief making\" evidences compassion and concern. From Bluebeard's wife to Nancy Drew, and from Jane Eyre to Janie Crawford, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offences in the pursuit of social justice. Girls, too, have now precociously stepped up to the plate, with Hermione Granger, Katniss Everdeen, and Starr Carter as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a \"hero's journey,\" but they reveal the value of courage, defiance, and, above all, care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Franklin describes \u003cem\u003eThe Heroine with 1,001 Faces\u003c\/em\u003e as \"by turns dazzling and chilling\", creating a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day. It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre, and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then, is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of recent cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363115483372,"sku":"9781631498817","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24321453482768.jpg?v=1772914583"},{"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"},{"product_id":"the-fairest-of-them-all-by-maria-tatar-9780674271128","title":"The Fairest of Them All","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tilt the magic mirror this way, that, and you'll find nearly two dozen reflections, each dazzling, of the \u003ci\u003eur\u003c\/i\u003e-fairy tale known as \u003ci\u003eSnow White\u003c\/i\u003e. With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-Gregory Maguire, author of \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating. A strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy and maternal persecution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale. An exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-Marina Warner, author of \u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of the rivalry between a beautiful, innocent girl and her cruel and jealous mother has been endlessly repeated and refashioned all over the world. The Brothers Grimm gave this story the name by which we know it best, and in 1937 Walt Disney sweetened their sombre version to make the first feature-length, animated fairy tale, \u003ci\u003eSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u003c\/i\u003e. Since then the Disney film has become our cultural touchstone—the innocent heroine, her evil stepmother, the envy that divides them, and a romantic rescue from domestic drudgery and maternal persecution. 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