Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More - Brossura

Warner, Marina

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ISBN 10: 0679759247 ISBN 13: 9780679759249

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1995

Riassunto

Six provocative essays assess the influence of fairy tales, legends, and myths on contemporary life, interweaving elements of classical mythology, pop culture, and current events into an incisive work of cultural criticism. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

Myths define enemies and aliens and in conjuring them up they say who we are and what we want, they tell stories to impose structure and order. Like fiction, they can tell the truth even while they're making it all up."

-- from Six Myths of Our Time, "Boys Will Be Boys: The Making of the Male"

L'autore:

Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian, and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo and The Lost Father (winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), as well as a collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement. Among her acclaimed nonfiction works are Alone of All Her Sex, Monuments and Maidens, Joan of Arc, From the Beast to the Blonde, No Go The Bogeyman, and Managing Monsters (1994 Reith Lectures).

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679759247
• ISBN 13: 9780679759249
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162