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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner (Hardcover, 1994)
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The value and enduring popularity of folk and fairy tales derives not only from their mythic significance but, crucially, from the fact that their concerns are rooted in the material world. Author:Warner, Marina.
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This study 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, from the ancient sibyls to the 18th-century salonieres , and from Disney to Angela Carter. The value and enduring popularity of folk and fairy tales derives not only from their mythic significance but, crucially, from the fact that their concerns are rooted in the material world. Warner looks at favourite tales, from Beauty and the Beast to Bluebeard , and a rich vein of other tales, in a historical perspective, showing how often the tellers were women - nurses, grandmothers, midwives, the 18th-century women who had no alternative literary voice - who produced tales to deal with actual, urgent dilemmas in the lives of their listeners: men, matrimony, sex and morality.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780701135300
eBay Product ID (ePID)86950234
Product Key Features
Book TitleFrom the Beast to the Blonde: on Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
AuthorMarina Warner
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Mythology
Publication Year1994
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height243mm
Item Width168mm
Item Weight1216g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMarina Warner
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 13 Aug, 2022
A feminist examination of the cultural history of storytelling.
A wonderful book, on the face of it simply a history of fairytale, which turns out to be an analysis of the myths underlying the patriarchy. With chapters like 'The Glass Paving and the Secret Foot' the book seems like a fairy tale itself.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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