No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock - Couverture rigide

Warner, Marina

 
9780374223014: No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0374223017 ISBN 13 : 9780374223014
Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Warner Marina

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Ogres and giants, bogeymen and bugaboos embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular fiction, from tales such as 'Jack the Giant Killer' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, from the Titans of Greek mythology to the dinosaurs of JURASSIC PARK, from Frankenstein TO MEN IN BLACK. Following her brilliant study of fairy tales, FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE, Marina Warner's rich, enthralling new book explores the ever increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the strategems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up -from horror stories to lullabies and jokes. Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling with vigorous intelligence, creative originality and relish, the myths and fears which define our sensibilites. Illustrated with a wealth of images - from the beautiful and the bizarre to the downright scary -this is a tour de force of scholarship and imagination.

Biographie de l'auteur

Marina Warner is a novelist, historian and critic; her fiction includes Indigo, The Lost Father (awarded a Marina Warner spent her early years in Cairo, and was educated at a convent in Berkshire, and then in Brussels and London, before studying modern languages at Oxford. She is an internationally acclaimed cultural historian, critic, novelist and short story writer. From her early books on the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc, to her bestselling studies of fairy tales and folk stories, From the Beast to the Blonde and No Go the Bogeyman, her work has explored different figures in myth and fairy tale and the art and literature they have inspired. She lectures widely in Europe, the United States and the Middle East, and is currently Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex. She was appointed CBE in 2008. www.marinawarner.com

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Éditeur
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374223017
ISBN 13 
9780374223014
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
435
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780099739814: No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  009973981X ISBN 13 :  9780099739814
Editeur : Vintage, 2000
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