No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

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Description

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as ‘Puss in Boots’ to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, and from Frankenstein to Men in Black. Following her brilliant study of fairy tales, From the Beast to the Blonde, this rich, enthralling new book explores the ever-increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up.

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Weight 0.556 kg
Dimensions 3.3 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm
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format

Language

Pages

464

publisher

Year Published

2000-2-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009973981X

About The Author

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. http://www.marinawarner.com

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

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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

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