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Once Upon a Time

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191028770
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time written by Marina Warner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over a long writing life, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Her book makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.

Stranger Magic

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065077
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Stranger Magic written by Marina Warner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.

From the Beast to the Blonde

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374524876
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book From the Beast to the Blonde written by Marina Warner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge in romancing?

Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199266840
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds written by Marina Warner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape ofmagic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays, given as the Clarendon Lectures in English 2001, takes four dominant processes of metamorphosis: Mutating, Hatching,Splitting, and Doubling, and explores their metaphorical power in the evication of human personality. Marina Warner traces this story against a background of historical encounters with different cultures, especially with the Caribbean. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as thefounding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting ofdoppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll.

Forms of Enchantment

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500295960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Forms of Enchantment written by Marina Warner and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of several artists - with a notable focus on the inner lives of women - through an exploration of the range of stories and symbols to which they allude. Metamorphosis features vividly in the imagery, stories and media of the art that Warner has chosen to write about: in connection with animals in the work of Louise Bourgeois, for instance; with the Catholicism of Damien Hirst; and with performance as a medium of memory and resistance in the installations of Joan Jonas. Rather than drawing on connoisseurship, the author's approach grows principally out of anthropology and mythology. She argues that art and aesthetics increasingly fulfil a magical social function - a principle that runs through these writings to give the collection a quality that is polemical as well as coherent. With an introductory essay and illustrations throughout, Marina Warner investigates how artists noted for their treatment of disturbing, uncanny material have reached beyond the visible, to express interior states. Truly inspiring, her writing unites the imagination of artist, writer and reader, creating a reading experience parallel to the intrinsic pleasure of looking at art.

Phantasmagoria

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199299943
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Phantasmagoria written by Marina Warner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.

Myths of greece and rome

Author : H. A. Guerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths of greece and rome written by H. A. Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alone of All Her Sex

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780099284499
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Alone of All Her Sex written by Marina Warner and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marina Warner begins with the gospels, noting the slight allusions to Mary, and the curious confusions between the two women of that name. She points out the falsities, fables and manifest fabrications that have shaped mariolatry. This intriguing and intelligent book is an attempt to explain the origins, growth, appeal and persistence of the Virgin's cult. The narrative is a rich, allusive tapestry set in a framework of theological commentary." -New Society

Signs & Wonders

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780099437727
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Signs & Wonders written by Marina Warner and published by Vintage Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a highly original and profound commentator on the culture of the past and present comes this superb 25-year retrospective collection of her finest essays on fiction, drama, religion and fairy-tale.

The Lost Father

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448104165
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Father written by Marina Warner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism. According to family legend, David Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter, an independent modern woman, constructs an imaginary memoir of her mother's background and life. She follows the family as they emigrate to New York - where they find only humiliation and poverty - and after their return to Italy in the early 1920's. As she is drawn by the passions and prejudices of her own imagination, we see how family memory, like folk memory, weaves its own dreams.

Monuments and Maidens

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520227336
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Monuments and Maidens written by Marina Warner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant examination of the allegorical uses of the female form to be found in the sculpture ornamenting public buildings as well as throughout the history of western art.

Joan of Arc

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Joan of Arc written by Marina Warner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Leto Bundle

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409028763
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Leto Bundle written by Marina Warner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day, Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer, and begins to search for her son.

Wonder Tales

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195178211
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales written by Marina Warner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008347603
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir written by Marina Warner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW

Esmond and Ilia

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376458
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Esmond and Ilia written by Marina Warner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical. Marina Warner’s father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War. As Allied forces fought their way north through Italy, Esmond found himself in the southern town of Bari, where Ilia had grown up, one of four girls of a widowed mother. The Englishman approaching middle age and the twenty-one-year-old Italian were soon married. Before the war had come to an end, Ilia was on her way alone to London to wait for her husband’s return and to learn how to be Mrs. Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. Ilia begins to learn the world of cricket, riding, canned food, and distant relations she has landed in, while Esmond, in spite of his connections, struggles to support his wife and young daughter. He comes up with the idea of opening a bookshop, a branch of W.H. Smith’s, in Cairo, where he had spent happy times during the North African campaign. In Egypt, however, nationalists are challenging foreign influences, especially British ones, and before long Cairo is on fire. Deeply felt, closely observed, rich with strange lore, Esmond and Ilia is a picture of vanished worlds, a portrait of two people struggling to know each other and themselves, a daughter’s story of trying to come to terms with a past that is both hers and unknowable to her. It is an “unreliable memoir”—what memoir isn’t?—and a lasting work of literature, lyrical, sorrowful, shaped by love and wonder.

The Mermaids in the Basement

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mermaids in the Basement written by Marina Warner and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noveller der med udgangspunkt i forskellige myter og legender beskriver forskellige kvinders liv