Maria Tatar

Maria Magdalene Tatar (born May 13, 1945 in Pressath ) is an American Germanist who specializes in children's literature.

Louis-Léopold Boilly 's And the Ogre Ate Him Up! , used in Maria Tatar's Enchanted Hunters. The Power of Stories in Childhood

Life

Maria Tatar's family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s . She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963. Tatar received his PhD from Princeton University in 1971 . In 1971 she moved to Harvard University , where she has been teaching since 1978. She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages ​​and Literature.

In 2019 Tatar received the Brothers Grimm Prize from the Philipps University of Marburg .

Publications (selection)

• Spellbound. Studies on Mesmerism and Literature , Princeton University Press , 1978, ISBN 978-0-691-06377-5 .
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales , Princeton, 1987, ISBN 978-0-691-06722-3 .
• Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood , Princeton, 1993, ISBN 978-0-691-06943-2 .
• The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales , WW Norton & Company , 2002, ISBN 978-0-393-05163-6 .
• The Annotated Brothers Grimm , WW Norton, 2004, ISBN 0-393-05848-4 .
• The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen , WW Norton, 2008, ISBN 978-0-393-06081-2 .
• Enchanted Hunters. The Power of Stories in Childhood , WW Norton, April 2009, ISBN 978-0-393-06601-2 .
• From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters. Why Children Read . In: Journal of Aesthetic Education , Vol. 43, Summer 2009, No. 2, pp. 19-36.
• The Annotated Peter Pan (Ed.), WW Norton, 2011, ISBN 978-0-393-06600-5 .
• The Annotated African American Folktales , ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Liveright-WW Norton, 2017, ISBN 0871407531 .

Web links

• Maria Tatar at Harvard University
• Breezes from Wonderland - Tatar's blog about storytelling, folklore and children's books
• Tatar discusses Enchanted Hunters , video on YouTube , 2008
• Tatar Discusses Development of Fairy Tales . In: The Harvard Crimson , April 8, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ AS Byatt : Love in fairytales . In: The Guardian , October 12, 2009. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Beth Potier: Once Upon a Time ... . In: Harvard University Gazette , April 10, 2003. 
3. ↑ Reading Them To Sleep, Storytelling and The Invention of Bedtime Reading . Pp. 60-61. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
4. ↑ Amy Sutherland: Maria Tatar: Professor and fairy-tale expert . In: The Boston Globe , October 27, 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Craig Lambert: The Horror and Beauty . In: Harvard Magazine , November – December 2007. 
6. ↑ Cindy Cantrell: In praise of bedtime stories . In: The Boston Globe , April 27, 2009. 
7. ↑ AS Byatt: Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar . In: The Guardian , November 7, 2009.