The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bruno Bettelheim
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9780679723936,
Paperback,
Random House Inc,
1989
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9780394722658,
Book,
Vintage Books,
1977
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9780394497716,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
1985
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Publisher Notes
Analyses of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and other fairy tales reveal their value in educating, supporting, and liberating the emotions of children.
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"Much of what has been written about fairy tales over the past hundred years, by psychologists as well as by folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics, seems to be unknown to [the author]....According to Bettelheim, the prejudice [against fairy tales] can have serious and destructive social effects....In my experience, it is not only adolescents deprived of fairy tales who take up with drugs and gurus. Still, if Bettelheim's long and well-argued defense convinces one parent to start telling his children bedtime stories, or persuades a single nervous teacher not to ban 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and 'Snow White', we should be grateful."
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