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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marina WarnerPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.556kg ISBN: 9780099739814ISBN 10: 009973981 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 03 February 2000 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA rich feast of a volume. No one knows more about the myths, tales and large dollops of art and culture which go into the shaping of our imagination -- Lisa Appignanesi Independent, Books of the Year No Go the Bogeyman is a study of terror. It is not a book for the faint-hearted or the intellectually fragile... A fascinating and disturbing book Sunday Telegraph This is a writer with power to change your imagination... Startling and shocking and delightful, No Go the Bogeyman is a treasure trove of stories, an indispensible reference work, a compendium of cultural images Independent Warner is a wonderful storyteller... Her range of references is startling... but she keeps her head and treads nimbly through, following the thread of her argument... with humane learning, wit and ease -- Gillian Beer Daily Telegraph A rich feast of a volume. No one knows more about the myths, tales and large dollops of art and culture which go into the shaping of our imagination -- Lisa Appignanesi * Independent, Books of the Year * No Go the Bogeyman is a study of terror. It is not a book for the faint-hearted or the intellectually fragile... A fascinating and disturbing book * Sunday Telegraph * This is a writer with power to change your imagination... Startling and shocking and delightful, No Go the Bogeyman is a treasure trove of stories, an indispensible reference work, a compendium of cultural images * Independent * Warner is a wonderful storyteller... Her range of references is startling... but she keeps her head and treads nimbly through, following the thread of her argument... with humane learning, wit and ease -- Gillian Beer * Daily Telegraph * Warner continues her erudite and entertaining investigation of fairy tales (begun in From the Beast to the Blonde, 1995) in a new study of the pleasure we derive from the fearful figures in tales and songs. Novelist and scholar Warner shifts her focus here to the mostly male characters, like ogres and the bogeyman. But the truer subject is fear itself and the ambiguous satisfactions of scariness. In an eclectic survey that ranges from classical myth to pulp fiction, from Fra Angelico to Quentin Tarantino, and with a wonderful selection of 100 vivid illustrations, Warner examines the undeniable attraction that fear has held for the young and the old throughout Western history. Warner's learned yet stylish and funny narrative jumps easily in time from ancient Greece to modern Hollywood. To manage the wide-ranging material thematically, Warner divides her text into three sections. In Scaring, she looks at the monsters, ogres, and bogeyman figures who fill our tales, eating human flesh and acting as alter egos. Lulling, examines the cradle songs that have been traditionally sung to soothe and protect infants and, as Warner points out, to allow frustrated parents and nannies an opportunity to vent their anger. Finally, Making Mock explores the role of comedy as a bulwark against fear. Warner offers a fresh perspective on how fantastic terrors are used in tales to allay real ones. One of the most refreshing and poignant of Warner's contributions is her unsentimental observations on contemporary life, especially modern childhood. Dinosaur-shaped cookies and stuffed animals in the form of hideous insects play as much a role in her analysis of managed fear as do the very real stresses that modern childhood places on parents and the family. Warner's compelling study of how we deal with fears through stories will be enjoyed equally by cultural historians and by any parent who has observed a child delighted by Beatrix Potter's Roly Poly Pudding or by Sendak's Wild Things. (Kirkus Reviews) Fear has become a sort of cathartic exercise. We reproduce it for mass popular entertainment, purging ourselves by immersion. Indeed, once upon a time a bestselling book in America was the illustrated catalogue of Death Row inmates. 'Scary' covers everything from abject terror to sheer delight, and it is this breadth of fear and its role in culture and society that Warner explores here. Following her study of fairy tales - From the Beast to the Blonde - she now looks at their masculine counterparts, from classical mythology through 19th-century tales of giants and ogres to today's blockbusters of cannibalism and aliens. She strips these imaginative creations back to their bare bones, considering where they came from and why we need them. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationMarina 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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