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From: Journal of American Folklore[(essay date Winter 1991) Dundes is an American instructor of English, anthropology, and folklore whose works include Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore (1984), and Parsing...
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From: Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Paul discusses Bettelheim's theory of womb envy and relates it to Freud's theory of penis envy.] Bettelheim's unmasking of male's womb envy is as fundamentally profound to our...
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From: Spectator[(review date 24 March 1990) In the following favorable review of Recollections and Reflections, Storr maintains that "Bettelheim's many admirers will not be disappointed by this final volume."] Bruno Bettelheim, who...
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From: The Promised End: Essays and Reviews, 1942-1962[(essay date 1956) A longtime literary critic for the New Yorker, Hyman rose to a prominent position in American letters during the middle decades of the twentieth century. He is noted for his belief that much of modern...
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From: Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand
[(essay date 1979) An American writer and educator, Zipes is the author of The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood (1983) and Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the... -
From: The Nation, New York[(review date 12 May 1979) Park is an American educator who frequently writes and lectures about autism and mental illness. In the following review, she praises Surviving, and Other Essays.] When I accepted [Surviving,...
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From: Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Group on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association[(essay date 1977) In the following excerpt, Heisig disputes many of Bettelheim's conclusions in The Uses of Enchantment but notes that Bettelheim “probably does more for the respectability of the fairy tale as an...
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From: Philosophy and Social Criticism[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Guenther challenges Agamben’s identification of shame as “the hidden structure of all subjectivity and consciousness.” Arguing that this definition “collapses the distinction...
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From: Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction[(essay date 2011) In this essay, Bayer examines three novels about World War II--Stephen Fry's Making History, John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and A. L. Kennedy's Day--written several decades after the war...
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From: The Horn Book MagazineIt is difficult for the Sendak worshiper to believe that there still exists a reading public which views askance the delightfully impudent antics of Max and the wild things. However, unfavorable attitudes toward Maurice...
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 1989) In the following excerpt, Tutt negatively assesses “Surviving” based on the arguments put forth in The Uses of Enchantment.] The 1982 film version of Sophie's Choice completed a cycle of mainstream...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPsychologists Geoffrey R. McKee and Steven J. Shea have asserted, "Few crimes generate greater public reaction than the intentional murder of children" (678). Given prevailing views about the innocence and...
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From: Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Marcus delineates Bettelheim's theory of mass society and compares it to those of contemporary social theorists.] In this [essay] I will elaborate on Bettelheim's analysis of...
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From: Science-Fiction Studies[(essay date March 1992) In the following essay, Lehman compares the portrayal of scientific experimentation as a substitute for natural reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Island of Doctor Moreau.]...
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From: Studies in American Jewish LiteratureNo single document written during the Holocaust riveted the attention of the Western reading public more than the diary kept by Anne Frank and published in extract by her father, Otto, in 1947. Translated from the...
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From: Psychohistory Review: Studies of Motivation in History and Culture[(essay date spring 1992) In the following essay, Roazen investigates the reasons for the decline of Bettelheim's reputation.] Bruno Bettelheim's role in the history of psychoanalysis has long been known to be a...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[In the following essay, Gilman compares Frank's Diary to contemporary works by Jewish authors.] No single document written during the Holocaust riveted the attention of the Western reading public more than the diary...
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From: The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Orton considers human-animal transformations in the Grimms’ stories, Old Norse mythology, and English folklore. Orton associates these transformations with pre-Christian pagan...
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From: The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis[The following discussion of Portnoy's Complaint is excerpted from Berman's highly academic study The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis. In his introduction to the work, Berman notes that "Roth...