The Uses Of Enchantment

Author : Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307739635
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Enchantment written by Bruno Bettelheim and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life.

Author : Heidi Julavits
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400078113
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Enchantment written by Heidi Julavits and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance? This question haunts Mary's family, her psychologist, even Mary herself. Weaving together three narratives, The Uses of Enchantment conjures a spell in which the hallucinatory power of a young woman’s sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has devastating consequences for all involved.

Author : Maria Tatar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393066012
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood written by Maria Tatar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy.

Author : Donika Kelly
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 155597953X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bestiary written by Donika Kelly and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought myself body enough for two, for we. Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back, from my bones, what lived along the ridge from crown to crown, from mane to forked tongue beneath the skin. What clamor we made in the birthing. What hiss and rumble at the splitting, at the horns and beard, at the glottal bleat. What bridges our back. What strong neck, what bright eye. What menagerie are we. What we've made of ourselves. --from "Love Poem: Chimera" Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." Lurking in the middle of this powerful and multifaceted collection is a wrenching sequence that wonders just who or what is the real monster inside this life of survival and reflection. Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole.

Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192803832
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales written by Alison Lurie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.

Author : Marie-Louise von Franz
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834840847
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interpretation of Fairy Tales written by Marie-Louise von Franz and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jungian psychologist explains how careful analyses of fairy tales like “Beauty and the Beast” can lead to a better understanding of human psychology Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and so a study of the world's fairy tales yields a wealth of insights into the archetypal experiences of humankind. Perhaps the foremost authority on the psychological interpretation of fairy tales is Marie-Louise von Franz. In this book—originally published as An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales —she describes the steps involved in analyzing and illustrates them with a variety of European tales, from "Beauty and the Beast" to "The Robber Bridegroom." Dr. von Franz begins with a history of the study of fairy tales and the various theories of interpretation. By way of illustration she presents a detailed examination of a simple Grimm's tale, "The Three Feathers," followed by a comprehensive discussion of motifs related to Jung's concept of the shadow, the anima, and the animus. This revised edition has been corrected and updated by the author.

Author : Vanessa Joosen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814334522
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales written by Vanessa Joosen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory.

Author : Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394757769
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Enough Parent written by Bruno Bettelheim and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-03-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the preeminent child psychologist of our time gives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what is most crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not to give parents preset rules for raising their children, but rather to show them how to develop their own insights so that they will understand their own and their children's behavior in different situations and how to cope with it. Above all, he warns, parents must not indulge their impulse to try to create the child they would like to have, but should instead help each child fully develop into the person he or she would like to be.

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481497588
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enchantment of Ravens written by Margaret Rogerson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts--even as she falls in love with a faerie prince--in this gorgeous debut novel. 6 x 9.

Author : Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773523
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Enchantment written by Bruno Bettelheim and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life.