Marina Warner

Alone of All Her Sex (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780394711553

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power...more details
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Alone Of All Her Sex (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099284499

"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...more details
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USD $37.02

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Anselm Kiefer: Next Year in Jerusalem (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9783791345833

This book imaginatively evokes one of Anselm Kiefer's most significant exhibitions with magnificent reproductions of a provocative body of work representing his key themes...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:216

USD $126.83

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Colour of Time: Garry Fabian Miller (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781907317064

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:190

USD $53.61

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Figuring the Soul (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780701165925

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From the Beast to the Blonde - On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409028635

A study that looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries...more details
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FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099479512

Looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of tales and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told. This volume considers tales through the centuries...more details
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Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780520224643

Joan has a unique role in Western imagination--she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:349

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Leto Bundle, The (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099284659

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...more details
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Leto Bundle (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780701169206

Taking as her start point, Ovid's story about Leto, who pregnant by Jupiter flees the wrath of his wife Juno, Marina Warner adapts the tale to a wild and lawless time...more details
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Long Ago and Far Away: Eight Traditional Fairy Tales (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781843913627

Release Date: 01 August 2012
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Format:Paperback  Pages:140

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Lost Father (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781850893035

The Lost Father is the narrator's story of her search for her own and her family's identity.

Davide Pittagora, her grandfather, died from a bullet wound and his "duel" is the pivot on which this independent...more details
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Managing Monsters ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409028703

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Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780813191744

Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thrive amidst society's ever-increasing attraction to the thrill of experiencing fear. Today many of us seek out horror movies...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:472

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Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780520227330

Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:417

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Monuments and Maidens - The Allegory of the Female Form ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409029182

Examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's Statue of Liberty, the public sculptures of central Paris and the images of Mrs Thatcher favoured by Fleet Street....more details
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Monuments And Maidens (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099588818

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Murderers I Have Known - And Other Stories ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409020790

A collection of images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction....more details
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Murderers I Have Known and Other Stories (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780701173036

Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural...more details
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Murderers I Have Known (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099428374

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No Go the Bogeyman - Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409020752

Following the study of fairy tales, from "The Beast" to "The Blonde", this book explores the ever increasing presence of such figures of male terror...more details
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NO GO THE BOGEYMAN (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099739814

Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling the myths and fears which define human sensibilities. She looks at the creatures which dominate popular fiction...more details
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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-First Century (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780199239238

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...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:469

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Signs & Wonders - Essays on Literature and Culture ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409028833

A collection of essays....more details
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Signs and Wonders (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099437727

Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays like 'The Crushed Butterflies of War', she has been one of the most challenging...more details
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Signs and Wonders (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780701173326

Finding unexpected links between the images of literature, art and politics, Warner turns her attention to Caliban and the Caribbean, and to fairies...more details
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Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780679759249

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Stranger Magic ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409028567

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Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780674055308

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths...more details
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The Leto Bundle ()

Marina Warner

ISBN:9781409028765

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...more details
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Wonder Tales - Six Stories of Enchantment (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099552048

Gathers together a collection of fairy tales by some of the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries who used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences....more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:256

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Wonder Tales (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780099735915

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World of Myths (Book)

Marina Warner

ISBN:9780292702042

Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures. Epic struggles and heroic adventures...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:410

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Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (Book)

Marina Warner;John Adair GilbertAshbery

ISBN:9780195178210

Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:243

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Stranger Magic (Book)

Warner Marina

ISBN:9780701173319

Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to newrealms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom...more details
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World of Myths (Book)

Marina intro Warner

ISBN:9780714127835

This illustrated volume presents myths from five ancient cultures: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic and Norse....more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:424

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