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Once Upon a Time
A Short History of Fairy Tale
Taschenbuch von Marina Warner
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
In ten succinct chapters, 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.
In ten succinct chapters, 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.
Über den Autor
Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976; re-issued 2013), Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (2012), From the Beast to the Blonde - on Fairy Tales and their Tellers (1994), Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2001. 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prologue

  • 1: The Worlds of Faery: Far Away and Down Below

  • 2: With a Stroke 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

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198779858
ISBN-10: 0198779852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Warner, Marina
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 170 x 118 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Marina Warner
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2016
Gewicht: 0,227 kg
Artikel-ID: 103863180
Über den Autor
Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976; re-issued 2013), Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (2012), From the Beast to the Blonde - on Fairy Tales and their Tellers (1994), Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2001. 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prologue

  • 1: The Worlds of Faery: Far Away and Down Below

  • 2: With a Stroke 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

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198779858
ISBN-10: 0198779852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Warner, Marina
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 170 x 118 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Marina Warner
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2016
Gewicht: 0,227 kg
Artikel-ID: 103863180
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