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Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter

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A Harvard professor who's spent decades studying fairy tales explains why they still work on adults, not just kids: that uneasy blend of "beauty and horror." She traces her own path from Denison and Munich to Princeton and a 1971 Harvard appointment that's lasted a lifetime.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, S. Abbas Raza

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