New Releases by Maria Tatar

La mitóloga y folclorista de renombre mundial Maria Tatar nos revela una asombrosa pero largamente enterrada historia de heroínas, que nos lleva desde Casandra y Scheherezade hasta Nancy Drew y la Mujer Maravilla. Durante décadas, la célebre obra de Joseph Campbell El héroe de las mil caras, con su énfasis en el viaje que conduce a la gloria y a la inmortalidad, ha alimentado nuestra imaginación y ha dado forma a nuestra cultura. En este profundo y sincero libro, Maria Tatar desafía el culto a los héroes guerreros y a los líderes espirituales en clave masculina, revelando otra historia secreta: la de aquellas heroínas que muestran inteligencia, valor, empatía, curiosidad y cuidado en su búsqueda de la justicia. Tatar pone de manifiesto cómo las heroínas, desde Scheherezade hasta la Mujer Maravilla, han pasado desapercibidas a pesar de haber demostrado un coraje enorme en su denuncia de la injusticia. Por momentos deslumbrante y escalofriante, La heroína de las 1001 caras crea un arco luminoso que nos lleva desde la antigüedad hasta el presente, explicando nuestro tiempo como ninguna otra obra de historia cultural. Una brillante reflexión sobre la evolución de los valores escondidos en las historias que contamos, escribimos y reinventamos, que nos invita a un viaje hacia la autocomprensión y el empoderamiento. La crítica ha dicho... «Una revisión profunda de nuestra comprensión sobre las mujeres en la mitología y en los relatos.» Henry Louis Gates Jr., New York Times «El mejor libro de no ficción que he leído este año.» Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg «Desde Penélope y Pandora hasta Katniss Everdeen y Lisbeth Salander, el “viaje del héroe” recibe una renovación de imagen muy necesaria. Un libro fascinante, divertido y esclarecedor.» Kirkus Reviews «¿Quién sino Maria Tatar se siente como en su propia casa en los bosques, donde viven las brujas, las hadas y otras mujeres salvajes? Nadie sabe más que ella de las heroínas olvidadas y denostadas de nuestras historias y mitos.» Cornelia Funke, autora «Este vibrante y erudito trabajo mezcla la lectura innovadora de los cuentos clásicos con un estudio de las heroínas modernas en libros y películas. En el futuro, todos, desde los maestros hasta los magnates del cine, deberán tener a mano La heroína de las 1001 caras antes de comenzar su trabajo.» Lewis Hyde, autor «Más que una refutación del texto seminal de Joseph Campbell, El héroe de las mil caras, el libro de Tatar ofrece las infinitas experiencias de las mujeres. Interactuando con las obras de Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Anne Sexton y muchas otras, Tatar explora las dificultades históricas y textuales de tener una voz. Una lectura necesaria para académicos, activistas y narradores interesados en revisiones inclusivas del canon del héroe.» Asa Drake, Library Journal «Tatar remueve lo que J. R. R. Tolkien llamó una vez el “caldero de la historia” en busca de las niñas y mujeres, algunas silenciadas y otras olvidadas, algunas de la Ilíada y otras de Netflix, que viven en el punto ciego de Campbell. El lector salta de la batalla de Aracne con Atenea a la huida de la mujer embaucadora de Barba Azul, a Pippi Calzaslargas y Nancy Drew, e incluso a Carrie Bradshaw tecleando en su portátil.» Gal Beckerman, New York Times Book Review «La heroína de las 1001 caras rastrea fuentes antiguas y contemporáneas, desde la mitología antigua hasta el #MeToo, para demostrar tanto el poder revolucionario del discurso de las mujeres como las formas estremecedoras en que su supresión está incrustada en los cimientos mismos de nuestra cultura.» Ruth Franklin, autora

"Uma nova interpretação da jornada feminina para reavaliar nossos conceitos sobre o heroísmo e as divisões de gênero no mundo moderno" Neste livro, a folclorista Maria Tatar apresenta uma desconstrução das chamadas verdades universais atemporais, presentes em contos, mitos e narrativas ficcionais e não ficcionais sobre o papel das mulheres. Professora e pesquisadora da Universidade de Harvard, a autora desafia os modelos canônicos de heroísmo presentes em O Herói de Mil Faces, de Joseph Campbell, com sua ênfase masculina em alcançar a glória e a imortalidade. Encontrar as mulheres omitidas em seu relato e definir as respectivas trajetórias heroicas não é tarefa fácil, considerando que Campbell inspirou a cartilha para os diretores de cinema hollywoodianos. Por meio de sua escrita ágil e fácil de entender, Maria Tatar descreve de forma surpreendente os mitos ligados às mulheres - rompendo assim as fronteiras de gênero. Este livro revolucionário nos traz empatia e justiça social como nenhum outro trabalho da história cultural recente a respeito do papel da mulher nas narrativas míticas e históricas."

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women’s work—spinning, mending, and weaving—is carried out. Tatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, with their male-centric emphases on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing from his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task, for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences around the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives and charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo, Luke Skywalker, or Harry Potter, Campbell’s archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office. In a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame, and how their “mischief making” evidences compassion and concern. From Bluebeard’s wife to Nancy Drew, and from Jane Eyre to Janie Crawford, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offenses in the pursuit of social justice. Girls, too, have now precociously stepped up to the plate, with Hermione Granger, Katniss Everdeen, and Starr Carter as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a “hero’s journey,” but they reveal the value of courage, defiance, and, above all, care. “By turns dazzling and chilling” (Ruth Franklin), The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day. It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre, and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then, is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of recent cultural history.

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women’s work—spinning, mending, and weaving—is carried out. Tatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, with their male-centric emphases on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing from his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task, for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences around the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives and charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo, Luke Skywalker, or Harry Potter, Campbell’s archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office. In a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame, and how their “mischief making” evidences compassion and concern. From Bluebeard’s wife to Nancy Drew, and from Jane Eyre to Janie Crawford, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offenses in the pursuit of social justice. Girls, too, have now precociously stepped up to the plate, with Hermione Granger, Katniss Everdeen, and Starr Carter as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a “hero’s journey,” but they reveal the value of courage, defiance, and, above all, care. “By turns dazzling and chilling” (Ruth Franklin), The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day. It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre, and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then, is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of recent cultural history.

When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch''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''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.

“With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked The story of the rivalry between a beautiful, innocent girl and her cruel and jealous mother has been endlessly repeated and refashioned all over the world. The Brothers Grimm gave this story the name by which we know it best, and in 1937 Walt Disney sweetened their somber version to make the first feature-length, animated fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, the Disney film has become our cultural touchstone—the innocent heroine, her evil stepmother, the envy that divides them, and a romantic rescue from domestic drudgery and maternal persecution. But each culture has its own way of telling this story of jealousy and competition. An acclaimed folklorist, Maria Tatar brings to life a global melodrama of mother-daughter rivalries that play out in unforgettable variations across countries and cultures. “Fascinating...A strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy, and maternal persecution.” —Wall Street Journal “Is the story of Snow White the cruelest, the deepest, the strangest, the most mythopoeic of them all?...Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale...a feast of rich thoughts...An exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale.” —Marina Warner “The inimitable Maria Tatar offers us a maze of mothers and daughters and within that glorious tangle an archetype with far more meaning than we imagine when we say ‘Snow White.’” —Honor Moore “Shocking yet familiar, these stories...retain the secret whisper of storytelling. This is a properly magical, erudite book.” —Literary Review

A compelling set of short stories chronicling post-World War I life in Germany, from the author of the classic, All Quiet on the Western Front. German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as in an impressive selection of novels, plays, and short stories. This exquisite collection revives Remarque’s unforgettable voice, presenting a series of short stories that have long ago faded from public memory. From the haunting description of an abandoned battlefield to the pain of losing a loved one in the war to soldiers’ struggles with what we now recognize as PTSD, the stories offer an unflinching glimpse into the physical, emotional, and even spiritual implications of World War I. In this collection, we follow the trials of naïve war widow Annette Stoll, reflect on the power of small acts of kindness toward a dying soldier, and join Johann Bartok, a weary prisoner of war, in his struggle to reunite with his wife. Although a century has passed since the end of the Great War, Remarque’s writing offers a timeless reflection on the many costs of war. Eight Stories offers a beautiful tribute to the pain that war inflicts on soldiers and civilians alike, and resurrects the work of a master author whose legacy—like the war itself—will endure for generations to come.

Franz Anton Mesmer''s concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers. Mesmer, who saw in his discovery the secret of health, had hoped to recover the harmony between man and nature by harnessing the power of magnetic fluids. In calling attention to the existence of a second self that surfaces in the hypnotic trance, Mesmer made his real contribution and took the first, decisive steps on the road leading to the unconscious. While most critical studies of mesmerism originate in the history of science or medicine, Maria Tatar''s book takes a fresh approach by tracing the impact of mesmerism on literature. The author launches her account with a portrait of Mesmer and places his views in the context of eighteenth-century thought. She then explores the significance of Mesmer''s ideas and studies their influence on nineteenth-century German, French, and American writers. In conclusion, she examines the ways in which modern authors absorbed and reshaped the mesmerist legacy bequeathed to them by earlier generations. Whether discussing the electrical energy vibrating through Kleist''s dramas, the electrical heat radiating from Hoffmann''s figures, the streams of magnetic fluid coursing through Balzac''s novels, or the magnetic chain of humanity linking Hawthorne''s characters, Professor Tatar recaptures the meaning of ideas, motifs, and metaphors often overlooked by literary critics. Her study illuminates, in a remarkable way, the subtle connections between science, psychology, and literature. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Uma charmosa edição de bolso, para acompanhar pais e filhos pelo resto da vida. Em um só volume encadernado, as mais famosas histórias infantis, em suas versões originais , sem adaptações, de Grimm, Perrault e Andersen, entre outros. Nesses contos de fadas, bruxas, princesas, encantamentos e finais felizes! Inclui: capa dura e preço especial; cerca de 90 pinturas e desenhos, muitos deles raros, de ilustradores célebres como Gustave Doré; biografia dos autores; um livro indispensável nas bibliotecas e escolas. Obras clássicas para não sairem da sua cabeceira!

Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. 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’s Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling’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’s landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar’s book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.

Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard''s wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.

Essa edição é um verdadeiro tesouro que reúne em um mesmo volume as mais famosas histórias infantis, buscando ao mesmo tempo celebrar e resgatar essa poderosa herança cultural que são os contos de fadas, apresentando as narrativas que todos nós pensamos conhecer juntamente com contextos históricos que desvendam seus mistérios ou acrescentam novos dados a essa imensa teia de princesas, bruxas, encantamentos e finais felizes. São ao todo 26 contos de Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, entre outros, em novas traduções, cada um enriquecido por notas e uma apresentação elaboradas por Maria Tatar, eminente autoridade no campo do folclore e da literatura infantil, que exploram suas origens históricas e complexidades culturais e psicológicas. Além disso, o volume conta com uma extraordinária coleção de cerca de 300 pinturas e desenhos, muitos deles raros, da autoria de ilustradores célebres como Arthur Rackham, Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, Edward Burne-Jones, Edmund Dulac e Walter Crane.

Throughout the book, Tatar 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 book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly."--BOOK JACKET.

This publication coincides with the debut museum exhibition of this Venezuelan-born, New York-based artist, whose work explores our psychological relationship to visual narrative tropes. In his collages, photographs, sculptures and site-specific murals, Herrera employs figurative and spatial elements of cartoon and animated imagery to produce enigmatic associations that are at once profound and playful. Freudian bulges and folds are candy-coated in his Disney-stylized wall paintings, while in highly textural photographs the body and the landscape are revealed to be still, cryogenically frozen fields of the unknown. In addition to the superb photographic reproductions of Herrera''s work from his 1998 exhibition at The Renaissance Society, this catalogue includes essays by Neville Wakefield, who considers the delightful and provocative subject matter of Herrera''s work, and Maria Tatar, who explores the fabulous monsters lurking in his coloring book collages.

In a book that confronts our society''s obsession with sexual violence and the image of the violated female corpse in our collective consciousness, Harvard culturist Maria Tatar examines images of sexual murder and studies how art and murder have intersected in sexual culture from Weimar Germany to the present. 44 photos.

Analyse von Aussagen und Sachverhalten aus Grimm''schen Märchen im Hinblick auf eine mögliche Entsprechung in der Realität.