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The uses of enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales / Bruno Bettelheim.
LIBRA GR550 .B47 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bettelheim, Bruno.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- Psychoanalysis and fairy tales.
- Folklore and children.
- Children's stories--Psychological aspects.
- Children's stories.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysis and folklore.
- Folklore.
- Literature.
- Infant.
- Child.
- Medical Subjects:
- Folklore.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Literature.
- Infant.
- Child.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, vi, [2[, 328, xi pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Scranton, Pennsylvania : Composed, printed and bound by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], [1976]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The struggle for meaning
- Part One: A pocketful of magic. Life divined from the inside; "The fisherman and the Jinny": fairy tale compared to fable; Fairy tale versus myth: optimism versus pessimism; "The three little pigs": Pleasure principle versus reality principle; The child's need for magic; Vicarious satisfaction versus conscious recognition; The importance of externalization: fantasy figures and events; Transformations: The fantasy of the wicked stepmother; Bringing order into chaos; "The queen bee": achieving integration; "Brother and sister": unifying our dual nature; "Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the porter ": fancy versus reality; The frame story of "Thousand and One Nights"; Tales of two brothers; "The three languages": building integration; "The three feathers": the youngest child as simpleton; Oedipal conflicts and resolutions: the knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress; Fear of fantasy: Why were fairy tales outlawed?; Transcending infancy with the help of fantasy; "The goose girl": achieving autonomy; Fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation; On the telling of fairy stories
- Part Two: In fairy land . "Hansel and Gretel"; "Little Red Riding Hood"; "Jack and the Beanstalk"; The jealous queen in "Snow White" and the myth of Oedipus; "Snow White"; "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"; "The Sleeping Beauty"; "Cinderella"; The animal-groom cycle of fairy tales.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "First Edition."
- "The text of this book was set, via computer-driven Cathode Ray Tube, in Video Gael, an adaptation of Caledonia, a type face originally designed by W. A. Dwiggins."--A Note on the Type.
- "Designed by Earl Tidwell."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bettelheim, Bruno. Uses of enchantment.
- ISBN:
- 0394497716 :
- 9780394497716
- OCLC:
- 1945414
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