Word: tatar
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...Tatar, who also holds the titles of Dean for the Humanities and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will be discussing The Annotated Brothers Grimm, her new lushly illustrated and thoughtfully glossed book on some of the most famous (and most obscure) fairy tales in the world...
...culture has different portals for fairy tales,” Tatar explains. She points to the obvious Disney portal, which is all about the magic so “you’re not supposed to analyze. At the other end of the spectrum is Will Bennett, whose Book of Virtue transforms every tale into “a single lesson, a single moral...
...Tatar says she wants to create a new portal, one that “gives you the aesthetic side, but points to the fact that there are multiple meanings.” Annotations “emphasize differing moments we can enter the story,” she says, that allow us to “find some kind of meaning for us and for our children...
There are 210 tales in the Grimms’ complete collection. Tatar’s book includes 46, arranged in the order of the original volume. “I’m trying to capture a historical document,” Tatar says, “to let it unfold as it would for a nineteenth century reader...
...despite this year’s junior appointments, in February, Dean for the Humanities Maria M. Tatar expressed concern over a downward trend in hiring female junior faculty in the humanities...