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Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World
Maria Tatar
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Description for Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 177.
Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations. Nearly every culture tells the story in one fashion or another - such cultural phenomena as The Fault in Our Stars and Me Before You are recent examples - and it is impossible to find one version that laid the foundation for the rest. From Cupid and Psyche, India's Snake Bride to South Africa's 'Story of Five Heads', the partnering of beast and beauties has beguiled us for thousands of years. In ... Read more
Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations. Nearly every culture tells the story in one fashion or another - such cultural phenomena as The Fault in Our Stars and Me Before You are recent examples - and it is impossible to find one version that laid the foundation for the rest. From Cupid and Psyche, India's Snake Bride to South Africa's 'Story of Five Heads', the partnering of beast and beauties has beguiled us for thousands of years. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143111696
SKU
9780143111696
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About Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard. She is the author of many acclaimed books on folklore and fairy tales, as well as the editor and translator of The Turnip Princess, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition and The Grimm Reader. She lives in Cambridge, ... Read more
Reviews for Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World
Superb ... Each story is basically an expression of anxiety about marriage and relationships-about the animalistic nature of sex, and the fundamental strangeness of men and women to each other ... Tatar points out, too, that every generation of monsters speaks to the anxieties of its time.
The Atlantic
Maria Tatar rounded up stories about animal brides and ... Read more
The Atlantic
Maria Tatar rounded up stories about animal brides and ... Read more