Marina Warner (Writer, historian, cultural critic, and novelist, Fe
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction
Marina Warner (Writer, historian, cultural critic, and novelist, Fe
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction
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Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan's Labyrinth. Exploring pervasive themes of folklore, myth, the supernatural, imagination, and fantasy, Warner highlights the impact of the genre on human understanding, history, and culture.
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Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan's Labyrinth. Exploring pervasive themes of folklore, myth, the supernatural, imagination, and fantasy, Warner highlights the impact of the genre on human understanding, history, and culture.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Very Short Introductions
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 192
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 168g
- ISBN-13: 9780199532155
- ISBN-10: 019953215X
- Artikelnr.: 49155136
- Very Short Introductions
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 192
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 168g
- ISBN-13: 9780199532155
- ISBN-10: 019953215X
- Artikelnr.: 49155136
Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Once Upon a Time (OUP, 2014) Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (OUP, 1976; re-issued 2013), Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (Vintage, 2012), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Vintage, 1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2001 by OUP; her essays on literature and culture were collected in Signs & Wonders (Vintage, 2000), and Phantasmagoria, a study of spirits and technology, appeared in 2006 (OUP). In 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize, and in 2013 she was awarded a Sheykh Zayed Prize and the Truman Capote Award. She was awarded a CBE for services to Literature in 2008. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.
Prologue
1: The worlds of Faery: far away and down below
2: With a touch of her wand: magic and metamorphosis
3: Voices on the page: tales, tellers, and translators
4: Potato soup: true stories/real life
5: Childish things: pictures and conversations
6: On the couch: house-training the Id
7: In the dock: don't bet on the Prince
8: Double vision: the dream of reason
9: On stage and screen: states of illusion
Epilogue
Further reading
Index
1: The worlds of Faery: far away and down below
2: With a touch of her wand: magic and metamorphosis
3: Voices on the page: tales, tellers, and translators
4: Potato soup: true stories/real life
5: Childish things: pictures and conversations
6: On the couch: house-training the Id
7: In the dock: don't bet on the Prince
8: Double vision: the dream of reason
9: On stage and screen: states of illusion
Epilogue
Further reading
Index
Prologue
1: The worlds of Faery: far away and down below
2: With a touch of her wand: magic and metamorphosis
3: Voices on the page: tales, tellers, and translators
4: Potato soup: true stories/real life
5: Childish things: pictures and conversations
6: On the couch: house-training the Id
7: In the dock: don't bet on the Prince
8: Double vision: the dream of reason
9: On stage and screen: states of illusion
Epilogue
Further reading
Index
1: The worlds of Faery: far away and down below
2: With a touch of her wand: magic and metamorphosis
3: Voices on the page: tales, tellers, and translators
4: Potato soup: true stories/real life
5: Childish things: pictures and conversations
6: On the couch: house-training the Id
7: In the dock: don't bet on the Prince
8: Double vision: the dream of reason
9: On stage and screen: states of illusion
Epilogue
Further reading
Index