Beauty and the Beast

Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

AvMaria Tatar,Maria Tatar

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Penguin Publishing Group

213 kr

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Beskrivning

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 this fascinating volume preeminent fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar brings together tales from ancient times to the present and from a wide variety of cultures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-30
Mått:128 x 196 x 16 mm
Vikt:209 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Penguin Publishing Group
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780143111696

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Mer om författaren

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, Massachusetts.

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[This] new book from Penguin ... provides some historical context [to the Disney film] ... Most of the stories about young women and animal grooms follow a predictable pattern ... But the Penguin book also includes plenty of stories in which the genders are flipped, pairing young men with animal brides.