@book {18167,
	title = {The Annotated Peter Pan},
	year = {In Press},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {One hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children with its kinetic energy. The adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell in Neverland are the seminal tale of escape and fantasy. Inspired by Barrie{\textquoteright}s real-life adventures with the five Llewelyn Davies boys he adopted, the story of Peter Pan has a deep and controversial history of its own that comes alive in Tatar{\textquoteright}s new edition. This brilliantly designed volume{\textemdash}with period photographs, full-color images by iconic illustrators, commentary on stage and screen versions, and an array of supplementary material, including Barrie{\textquoteright}s screenplay for a silent film{\textemdash}will draw readers into worlds of incandescent beauty, flooding them with the radiance of childhood wonder and the poignancy of what we lose when we grow up.
},
	author = {J. M. Barrie and Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18168,
	title = {Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis{\textquoteright}s Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman{\textquoteright}s His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling{\textquoteright}s Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim{\textquoteright}s landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar{\textquoteright}s book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18170,
	title = {The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark{\textquoteright}s "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen{\textquoteright}s most beloved tales, such as "The Emperor{\textquoteright}s New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Little Mermaid," are now joined by "The Shadow" and "Story of a Mother," mature stories that reveal his literary range and depth. Tatar captures the tales{\textquoteright} unrivaled dramatic and visual power, showing exactly how Andersen became one of the world{\textquoteright}s ten most translated authors, along with Shakespeare, Dickens, and Marx. Lushly illustrated with more than one hundred fifty rare images, many in full color, by artists such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen will captivate readers with annotations that explore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century and construct a compelling portrait of a writer whose stories still fascinate us today.
},
	author = {Hans Christian Andersen and Maria Tatar and Julie Allen}
}
@book {18171,
	title = {Secrets Beyond the Door: {\textquotedblleft}Bluebeard{\textquotedblright} in Folklore, Fiction, and Film},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton, New Jersey},
	abstract = {The tale of Bluebeard{\textquoteright}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 Jane Eyre to Lolita and in films as diverse as Hitchcock{\textquoteright}s Notorious and Jane Campion{\textquoteright}s The Piano.
In this fascinating work, Maria Tatar analyzes the many forms the tale of Bluebeard{\textquoteright}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.
In some tales the wife is a deceiver; in others she is a clever investigator. Earlier ages denounced Bluebeard{\textquoteright}s wife for her "reckless curiosity" and for 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. And 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. A brilliant account of how one classic fairy tale has been continually reincarnated, Secrets beyond the Door will appeal to both literary scholars and general readers.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18172,
	title = {The Annotated Brothers Grimm},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables in the most spectacular and unusual Grimm volume in decades. Containing forty stories in new translations by Maria Tatar{\textemdash}including "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel"{\textemdash}the book also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters such as George Cruikshank and Arthur Rackham; hundreds of annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural complexities, and psychological effects of these tales; and a biographical essay on the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Perhaps most noteworthy is Tatar{\textquoteright}s decision to include tales that were previously excised, including a few bawdy stories and others that were removed after the Grimms learned that parents were reading the book to their children{\textemdash}stories about cannibalism in times of famine and stories in which children die at the end. Enchanting and magical, The Annotated Brothers Grimm will cast its spell on children and adults alike for decades to come.
},
	author = {Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm and Maria Tatar and A. S. Byatt}
}
@book {19985,
	title = {The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales},
	year = {2002},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales is a remarkable treasure trove, a work that celebrates the best-loved tales of childhood and presents them through the vision of Maria Tatar, a leading authority in the field of folklore and children{\textquoteright}s literature. Into the woods with Little Red Riding Hood, up the beanstalk with Jack, and down through the depths of the ocean with the Little Mermaid, this volume takes us through many of the familiar paths of our folkloric heritage. Gathering together twenty-five of our most cherished fairy tales, including enduring classics like "Beauty and the Beast," "Jack and the Beanstalk," " ," and "Bluebead," Tatar expertly guides readers through the stories, exploring their historical origins, their cultural complexities, and their psychological effects. Offering new translations of the non-English stories by the likes of Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, or Charles Perrault, Tatar captures the rhythms of oral storytelling and, with an extraordinary collection of over 300 often rare, mostly four-color paintings and drawings by celebrated illustrators such as Gustave Dor{\'e}, George Cruikshank, and Maxfield Parrish, she expands our literary and visual sensibilities. As Tatar shows, few of us are aware of how profoundly fairy tales have influenced our culture. Disseminated across a wide variety of historical and contemporary media ranging from opera and drama to cinema and advertising, they constitute a vital part of our storytelling capital. What has kept them alive over the centuries is exactly what keeps life pulsing with vitality and variety: anxieties, fears, desires, romance, passion, and love. Up close and personal, fairy tales tell us about the quest for romance and riches, for power and privilege, and, most importantly, they show us a way out of the woods back to the safety and security of home. Challenging the notion that fairy tales should be read for their moral values and used to make good citizens of little children, Tatar demonstrates throughout how fairy tales can be seen as models for navigating reality, helping children to develop the wit and courage needed to survive in a world ruled by adults. This volume seeks to reclaim this powerful cultural legacy, presenting the stories that we all think we know while at the same time providing the historical contexts that unlock the mysteries of the tales. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales is a volume that will rank as one of the finest fairy tale collections in many decades, a provocative and original work to be treasured by students, parents, and children.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@inbook {18175,
	title = {Introduction to The Artificial-Silk Girl},
	booktitle = {The Artificial-Silk Girl},
	year = {2002},
	publisher = {Other Press},
	organization = {Other Press},
	author = {Irmgard Keun and Katherina von Ankum and Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18178,
	title = {The Classic Fairy Tales},
	year = {1999},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {This Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel," and presents multicultural variants and sophisticated literary rescriptings. Also reprinted are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde.
"Criticism" gathers twelve essays that interpret aspects of fairy tales, including their social origins, historical evolution, psychological drama, gender issues, and national identities.
A Selected Bibliography is included.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18183,
	title = {Grimms{\textquoteright} Grimmest},
	year = {1997},
	publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	organization = {W. W. Norton \& Co.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {Murder, kidnapping, cruel and unusual punishment, violent revengethese are not the bedtime stories mummy used to read. Newly reissued with a fresh cover, Grimm{\textquoteright}s Grimmest presents nineteen original, unsanitized, wholly unholy tales as they were first collected by the Brothers Grimm circa 1822all fiendishly illustrated. The tales harken back to a time when travelers risked roasting or worse, and bad manners yielded frightful consequences. An insightful introduction makes sense of the mayhem, shedding light on how the Grimm brothers went from macabre to mainstream in fairly short order. From the true horror of Aschenputtel (the original Cinderella story) to Rapunzel{\textquoteright}s dark secret, Grimm{\textquoteright}s Grimmest features the authentic stories born long ago in the land of the Black Forest, at a time when fairy tales never ended happily ever after.
},
	author = {Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm and Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18187,
	title = {Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany},
	year = {1995},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {1995},
	abstract = {In a book that confronts our society{\textquoteright}s obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place--both artistically and socially--in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder (Lustmord), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present.
Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers--George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife--but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased.
Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction.
In exploring the complex relationship between victim and agent in cases of sexual murder, Tatar explains how the roles came to be destabilized and reversed, turning the perpetrator of criminal deeds into a defenseless victim of seductive evil. Throughout the West today, the creation of similar ideological constructions still occurs in societies that have only recently begun to validate the voices of its victims. Maria Tatar{\textquoteright}s book opens up an important discussion for readers seeking to understand the forces behind sexual violence and its portrayal in the cultural media throughout this century.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18201,
	title = {Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology.},
	year = {1992},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton, New Jersey},
	abstract = {In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative structures that convey meaning in fiction, taking as their point of departure the narratological positions of Dorrit Cohn, Grard Genette, and Franz Stanzel. This collection demonstrates how narratology, with its attention to the modalities of presenting consciousness, offers a point of entry for scholars investigating the socio-cultural dimensions of literary representations. Drawing from a wide range of literary texts, the essays explore the borderline between fiction and history; explain how characters are constructed by both author and reader through the narration of consciousness; show how gender shapes narrative strategies ranging from the depiction of consciousness through intertextuality to the representation of the body; address issues of contingency in narrative; and present a debate on the crucial function of person in the literary text. The contributors are Stanley Corngold, Gail Finney, Kte Hamburger, Paul Michael Ltzeler, David Mickelsen, John Neubauer, Thomas Pavel, Jens Rieckmann, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Judith Ryan, Franz Stanzel, Susan Suleiman, Maria Tatar, David Wellbery, and Larry Wolff.
},
	author = {Ingeborg Hoesterey and Ann Clark Fehn and Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18189,
	title = {Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood},
	year = {1992},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton, New Jersey},
	abstract = {When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch{\textquoteright}s gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by their parents? Challenging Bruno Bettelheim and other critics who read fairy tales as enactments of children{\textquoteright}s untamed urges, Maria Tatar argues that it is time to stop casting the children as villians. In this provocative book she explores how adults mistreat children, focusing on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18203,
	title = {The Hard Facts of the Grimms{\textquoteright} Fairy Tales},
	year = {1987},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton, New Jersey},
	abstract = {Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm{\textquoteright}s Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar skillfully employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a folklorist, literary critic, and historian to examine the harsher aspects of these stories. She presents new interpretations of the powerful stories in this worldwide best-selling book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly.
},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
@book {18208,
	title = {Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature},
	year = {1978},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton, New Jersey},
	author = {Maria Tatar}
}
