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Marina Warner
Books in Order: 23 titles
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Fairy Tale
- May-2018
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and childr...
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Fly Away Home
- Sep-2015
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A long-awaited new collection of Marina Warner's short stories. Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, b...
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Once Upon a Time
- Dec-2014
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and childre...
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Alone of All Her Sex
- Mar-2013
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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All H...
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Long Ago and Far Away
- Jun-2012
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Brand new translations of the earliest versions of best-known and most-loved fairy tales, with an introduction by renowned mythographer Marina Warner Returning to some of the earliest written records of these stories, before the moralizing of...
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Wonder Tales
- Mar-2012
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Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women ...
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Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear
- Feb-2007
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Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thrive amidst society's ever-increasing attraction to the thrill of experiencing fear. Today many of us s...
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Phantasmagoria : Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media
- Dec-2006
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With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells th...
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Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
- Nov-2004
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Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman- all of them aristocrats- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key ...
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The Leto Bundle
- Apr-2002
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A sensual, compelling new novel inspired by dramatic chronicles, contemporary events, and the tragic figure of a woman-goddess in permanent exile
Room XIX of the Museum of Albion doesn't usually have many visitors. But when a huge crowd of dis... -
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
- Feb-1999
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An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men.
In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores... -
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
- Sep-1995
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From classical enchantresses to Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm, a cultural study of fairy tales shows what they reveal about the changing status of women, the ways of men, racial prejudice, and other serious subjects....
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Six Myths of Our Time
- Feb-1995
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Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do ...
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