#maria tatar

[yvain]

The story of Hansel and Gretel admirably illustrates the way in which an evil parent is reflected and distorted in the mirror of the fairy-tale world. The stepmother who fails to nurture the children and who drives them from home reemerges in the woods as a false provider, as a cannibalistic fiend masquerading as a magnanimous mother. In other tales, say “Little Brother and Little Sister,” the equation between the two figures is explicitly stated: the witch in the forest is indeed the stepmother stripped of her parental disguise. The evil forces at home habitually reappear, with all their flaws writ large, in the enchanted realm that constitutes the tale's principal setting.

Maria Tatar, The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales

#maria tatar #fairy tales #readings #doubling #*

[pasdetrois]

like eve before you

George Frederic Watts, Eve Tempted (detail) • Vievee Francis, "Apologia" • Edmund Blair Leighton, The Keys (detail) • Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives • Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber" • Heinrich Aldegrever, Adam and Eve • Gustave Doré, Illustration for "Blue Beard" • Paul Dukas, Ariane et Barbe-bleue • Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer • Hans Baldung Grien, Eve, Serpent and Death • Erika Steiskal, Illustration for "The Bloody Chamber"

#web weaving #bluebeard #fairytales and folklore #fairytaleedit #angela carter #the bloody chamber #vievee francis #maria tatar #glen duncan #gustave doré #biblical mythology #eve #it is the key that leads to the kingdom of the unimaginable #AND RENDER ME MORE EQUAL! #there really are so many interesting ways to read through this tale but the eve connections specifically jumped out quite often #not my most coherent set but you get it right! all this to say that eve (and her literary descendants) did nothing wrong! #I can't believe this has been in my drafts for years at this point. lol #spring cleaning time etc

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#annotated classic fairy tales #maria tatar #fairy tales #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls #idk if this is too specific

[fallenangelontheceiling]

Maria Tatar was so real for this

#maria tatar #the heroine with a thousand and one faces #joseph campbell #the hero's journey #books #quotes #the heroine with 1001 faces

[iphigeniacomplex]

et l'ogre l'a mangé / and the ogre ate him, louis-léopold boilly (1824)

“With book on her lap, a somber granny tells about the triumph of evil. Her story, a cautionary tale that takes a disciplinary turn, is unusual in suggesting that the ogre triumphs over the protagonist. Her listeners are stunned, dismayed, and silenced.” — Maria Tatar, from “Scenes of Storytelling” in The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (2002).

#it speaks! #i love this piece i think its so sweet in a way. the tradition of telling stories that are kind of messed up. like ive been the woman here #fairy tales #maria tatar

[allthatiknowisthatiknownothing]

"(Heroines) wear curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame, and we shall see how women’s connection to knowledge, linked to sin and transgression and censured as prying, is in fact often symptomatic of empathy, care, and concern." - Maria Tatar, The Heroine With 1,001 Faces

#quotes #maria tatar #the heroine with 1001 faces

[lazyydaisyyy]

It was Aristotle who observed that the poet's function is not to describe "the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen." Stories allow us to think in a subjunctive or utopian mood, keeping us anchored in reality yet also opening up what Brian Baldi describes, in this volume, as "a new space where readers can be limber, hazard their own routes, and make new associations and extrapolations about life."

Maria Tatar, “Foreward” from Brothers and Beasts

#maria tatar #brothers and beasts #words #lit #quote #quoteoftheday

[dragoneyes618]

We owe it to our children to give them books that do not put a politically correct dot on every "i" and that offer challenges, provocations, and an occasional sting that keeps us alive and thinking about those who lived before us.

Maria Tatar, The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centennial Edition, pages LXIII -LXIV

#maria tatar #peter pan #the annotated peter pan #neverland #j.m. barrie #quotes #book quotes #literature #thinking #books #children's literature

[popjunkie42]

Learning that Wilhelm Grimm was a sex prude. Gonna replace all the smut I’m writing with “she cherished him as she had promised” instead.

(From Maria Tatar’s “Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales”)

#Maria Tatar #fairytales #smut #grimms fairy tales #there’s only one bed and they fell peacefully asleep

[yvain]

House of the Dragon episodes 5, 6, and 9

Maria Tatar, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

#maria tatar #house of the dragon #fairy tales #feminism #comparatives #*

[pasdetrois]

Charlie Newton, Uncle Charlie's niece and namesake, is an odd candidate for Bluebeard's wife. For starters, she is, of course, a blood relation rather than a spouse. But the relationship between Uncle Charlie and Charlie is a complicated one. "We're not just uncle and niece," Charlie asserts. "It's something else. I know you." Charlie and her uncle are the first characters we meet in the film, both introduced through Peeping Tom shots in which the camera tracks from shots of their respective towns into their bedrooms to observe both, recumbent on their beds, meditating on the dead ends in which they find themselves. "This coupling of the two characters lying in beds separated by a continent is the most striking indication of the relationship that exists between them," one critic writes. "There is a sly hint that what Charlie and her uncle are thinking about while lying in bed is of the other in bed." In these paired scenes, there seems to be as much a touch of the morbid as of the erotic, for both characters are posed in such a way as to suggest a deathbed scene. With what appears to be telepathic precision, Charlie and her uncle simultaneously frame plans to telegraph the other with proposals for a family reunion.

If there is any doubt that the kinship between the two Charlies transcends blood ties, it is eliminated when the uncle takes his niece’s hand slips a ring on it. “Give me your hand, Charlie," he asks, and the profile of the two suggests a romantic engagement scene more than anything else. This symbolic marriage caps a scene that decisively takes us into the territory of the Bluebeard story. Charlie confides a powerful sense of kinship to her uncle at the same time that she asserts her knowledge of a secret in his past, an enigma that endows him with an aura of mystery. As her uncle's double, she not only feels confident that she can identify it, but also feels entitled to know it:

CHARLIE: I know you. I know that you don't tell people a lot of things I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you somewhere there's something nobody knows about. UNCLE CHARLIE: Something nobody knows... CHARLIE: Something secret and wonderful, and I'll find it out. UNCLE CHARLIE: Not good to find out too much. CHARLIE: But we're sort of like twins, don't you see. We have to know.

Maria Tatar, Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives

#RE: that poll from earlier #don't know what's going on with the indentation but I have no further patience to fix it #shadow of a doubt #maria tatar #it is the key that leads to the kingdom of the unimaginable #incest cw

[fated-mates]

🔊 S04.39: Superhero Romance with Barry Lyga

This week, we’re talking Superheroes! Why is it so rare to see a great romance in a superhero story? Is there really no room for love and capes? Do heroes eat? (spoiler: obviously) — We’re joined by author Barry Lyga, a comics and superhero expert, to discuss all this and more…and to chat about the new YA Superhero anthology, Generation Wonder, in which Sarah has a short story (it’s a romance). We also recommend some great superhero romances and comics, because of course we do.

#barry lyga #fiona staples #chip zdarsky #megan levens #sarah kuhn #maria tatar

[tiredtales]

“Wondrous narratives transfix children, engaging their intellectual powers and administering jolts of curiosity with the horrors they portray. The unsparing savagery of fair tales-with their predatory wolves, murderous stepmothers, treacherous siblings, and ravenous giants-does more than stun, astound, and shock. It also bewilders children in ways that drive them to know more, to launch intellectual campaigns, that will broaden their understanding of the human condition and help them navigate and manage what lies ahead.”

-Maria Tatar, Enchanted Hunters

#research #retelling #enchanted hunters #maria tatar #quote #fairy tales

[betterinthedarkblog]

The best way to kill a fairy tale is to put it between the covers of a book.

Maria Tatar, speaking at the Chicago Humanities Festival

#Maria Tatar #Fairy Tales #Lecture

[cannibalguy]

Thought Crimes: The Case of the CANNIBAL COP (Erin Lee Carter, 2015)

Thought Crimes: The Case of the CANNIBAL COP (Erin Lee Carter, 2015)

This is a fascinating documentary by the highly respected director Erin Lee Carr who also made such acclaimed narratives as Britney vs Spears. The 81 minute documentary features Gilberto Valle, a New York City Police Department officer who haunted online fetish chatrooms in 2012. There he had detailed very graphically his fantasies of kidnapping, torturing, raping, killing, and cannibalising…

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#1984 #anthropocentrism #Bob Dylan #cannibalism #Detlev Günzel #Erin Lee Carr #ethical #fantasy role-play #Gary Allen #George Orwell #Gilberto Valle #Laurie Penny #Maria Tatar #Michael Welner #NYPD #postmodern #The Cannibal Cop #thought police

[wellconstructedsentences]

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Maria Tatar

#maria tatar