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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307739636)
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xWinner 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: Bruno Bettelheim
ISBN-10: 0307739635
ISBN-13: 9780307739636
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2010
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.77d
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: Bruno Bettelheim
ISBN-10: 0307739635
ISBN-13: 9780307739636
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2010
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.77d
By Bruno Bettelheim
xBruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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