Maria Tatar
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American academic in children's literature, folklore and mythology, Germanic languages and literature
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Maria Tatar's Degrees
- PhD Germanic Languages and Literatures Princeton University
- Masters Germanic Languages and Literatures Princeton University
- Bachelors English Bryn Mawr College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maria Magdalene Tatar is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.
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Published Works
- Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (1987) (142)
- The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (2002) (61)
- Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature (1978) (52)
- The Annotated Brothers Grimm (2004) (48)
- Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (1995) (48)
- The classic fairy tales : texts, criticism (1999) (40)
- Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives (2004) (39)
- The Houses of Fiction: Toward a Definition of the Uncanny (1981) (33)
- Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology (1991) (32)
- Show and Tell: Sleeping Beauty as Verbal Icon and Seductive Story (2014) (23)
- The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (2007) (21)
- Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative (2010) (20)
- Mesmerism, Madness, and Death in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Der goldne Topf" (1975) (16)
- The Cambridge companion to fairy tales (2014) (14)
- E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann": Reflection and Romantic Irony (1980) (12)
- The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (2018) (9)
- The Annotated Peter Pan (2011) (9)
- What Do Children Want (1995) (8)
- Female tricksters as double agents (2014) (6)
- Deracination and Alienation in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg (1978) (6)
- 5. Born Yesterday: Heroes in the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1987) (6)
- Sunday, 26 August 2012 (2012) (5)
- Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai- Sayan area: the sacred holes and caves (1996) (5)
- The Aesthetics of Altruism in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales (2017) (4)
- Mirrors and webs: Fairy tales, cultural memory and trauma in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird and Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys (2017) (4)
- Unholy Alliances: Narrative Ambiguity in Tieck's "Der blonde Eckbert" (1987) (3)
- 1. SEX AND VIOLENCE. The Hard Core of Fairy Tales (2019) (3)
- From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters: Why Children Read (2009) (3)
- Tests, Tasks, and Trials in the Grimms' Fairy Tales (2009) (3)
- The fairies return, or, New tales for old (2012) (3)
- Fairy Tales, Myth, and Fantasy (2016) (3)
- The annotated African American folktales (2018) (3)
- The Poetics of the Combat Zone: Erich Maria Remarque'sIm Westen nichts Neues (2019) (3)
- "From Rags to Riches: Fairy Tales and the Family Romance" (2009) (2)
- Psychology and Poetics: J.C. Reil and Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1973) (2)
- A Eurasian Etymology: sarmysak < *k'irmus(V)/kermus(V)/karmus(V) 'Garlic' (2002) (2)
- The Art of Biography in Wackenroder's "Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders and Phantasien über die Kunst" (1980) (2)
- Brothers & beasts : an anthology of men on fairy tales (2007) (2)
- While beauty sleeps: The poetics of male violence inPerceforestand Almodóvar’sTalk to Her (2014) (1)
- 4. Blindness and Insight: Visionary Experience in the Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann (2015) (1)
- National/International/Transnational (2019) (1)
- The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (2015) (1)
- Inventing Portal Fantasies: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (2020) (1)
- Grimm's grimmest (1997) (1)
- Larger Than Life and Twice As Natural (2014) (1)
- The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters (2020) (1)
- INDEX OF TALES (2019) (0)
- The Wolf Trap: Entering the Woods through Fairy Tales (Lecture) (2015) (0)
- 7. TAMING THE BEAST Bluebeard and Other Monsters (2019) (0)
- Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness: Essays on Adaptations of Familiar Stories ed. by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ruth McKoy Lowery, Laretta Henderson (review) (2016) (0)
- 3. VICTIMS AND SEEKERS. The Family Romance of Fairy Tales (2019) (0)
- B. Selected Tales from the First Edition of the Nursery & Household Tales (2019) (0)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Rhetoric of Terror: Aspects of Language Used for the Evocation of Fear (1981) (0)
- Media-hyping of fairy tales (2014) (0)
- PREFACE TO THE PRINCE TON CLASSICS EDITION (2019) (0)
- The Myth of Macha in Eastern Europe (2007) (0)
- 4. BORN YESTERDAY. The Spear Side (2019) (0)
- Literary and Cinematic Representations of the Great Depression in Germany (1989) (0)
- THIRTEEN. Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in “The Juniper Tree” (1991) (0)
- Effects of Plant Growth Retardants on Development of Poinsettia ”Christmas Feeling” Cultivar (2021) (0)
- Bortz and Membrok, etymology of two Cuman names from the 13th century (2019) (0)
- Maurice Sendak: The Child as Artist (2014) (0)
- Whose Truth? A Conversation with Maria Tatar (2012) (0)
- Enchantments, Spells, and Curses: The Sorcery of Stories and the Magic in Them (2021) (0)
- C. Prefaces to the First and Second Editions of the Nursery & household tales (2019) (0)
- Handsome Princes, Ugly Sisters (1988) (0)
- Incandescent Objects and Pictures of Misery (2017) (0)
- 5. SPINNING TALES. The Distaff Side (2019) (0)
- E. Bibliographical Note (2019) (0)
- 1. From Mesmer to Freud: Animal Magnetism, Hypnosis, and Suggestion (2015) (0)
- 5. The Metaphysics of the Will: Voyeurs and Visionaries in Balzac’s “Comédie humaine” (2015) (0)
- 3. Thunder, Lightning, and Electricity: Moments of Recognition in Heinrich von Kleist's Dramas (2015) (0)
- EPILOGUE. Getting Even (2019) (0)
- 6. Masters and Slaves: The Creative Process in Hawthorne’s Fiction (2015) (0)
- Appendix. Mesmer’s Propositions (2015) (0)
- A. Six Fairy Tales from the NURSERY & HOUSEHOLD TALES, with Commentary (2019) (0)
- 2. FACT AND FANTASY. The Art of Reading Fairy Tales (2019) (0)
- Introduction to The Artificial-Silk Girl (2002) (0)
- Defending Children against Fairy Tales (1993) (0)
- Weimar Culture and Turn-of-the-Century Austrian Culture: Text-Oriented Courses for the Second Year (1979) (0)
- From the editors (1995) (0)
- Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers (2014) (0)
- The Fairest of Them All (2020) (0)
- 7. From Science Fiction to Psychoanalysis: Henry James’s “Bostonians,” D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love,” and Thomas Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” (2015) (0)
- 2. Salvation by Electricity: Science, Poetry, and “Naturphilosophie” (2015) (0)
- Wonders, Witches, Wolves, and Wisdom@@@The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (2004) (0)
- D. English Titles, Tale Numbers, and German Titles of Stories Cited (2019) (0)
- 6. FROM NAGS TO WITCHES. Stepmothers and Other Ogres (2019) (0)
- A Turkic Loan-word in Modern Russian Political Publicism and Turkic and Mongolic Preverbs (2014) (0)
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