From The Beast To The Blonde
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From The Beast To The Blonde
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Release Date : 1994
From The Beast To The Blonde written by Marina Warner and has been published by Random House (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Marina Warner explores the development of the modern nursery classics, using a wide range of sources, literary and artistic, historic and anthropological, to unfold neglected aspects of the tradition. [...] The author finds surprising sides to a flourishing folklore about storytelling and women's tongues, about the power of the disregarded to press their point of view in spite of everything"--
From The Beast To The Blonde
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-06-30
From The Beast To The Blonde written by Marina Warner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts in which they flourished. It also lifts the curtain on the tellers themselves - from ancient sibyls and old crones to the more modern Angela Carter and, of course, Walt Disney. A brilliant compendium of folklore, fairytales and learning which reveals unexpected links and histories behind some of our oldest and most-loved tales.
Once Upon A Time
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Once Upon A Time written by Marina Warner and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over a long writing life, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Her book makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.
The Splendid Blond Beast
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Author : Christopher Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2017-04-18
The Splendid Blond Beast written by Christopher Simpson and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with Political Science categories.
From a National Jewish Book Award–winning author: The “revelatory and shocking” investigation into the CIA’s liberation of Nazi war criminals (Kirkus Reviews). How did Gen, Karl Wolff, one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party’s Waffen-SS, who personally oversaw the deportation of three hundred thousand Jews to the Treblinka extermination camps, escape prosecution at the Nuremberg trials? As revealed in this groundbreaking investigation—culled from recently uncovered archival documents—the answer lies within the US government, which buried reports on the Final Solution and was complicit in the recruitment of Nazi war criminals, all to protect the world economy. Among the key players was CIA director Allen Dulles, who was not only instrumental in Wolff’s exoneration but also responsible for installing former slave-labor specialists into positions of power in postwar Germany. In this damning exposé of American government malfeasance, author Christopher Simpson traces the roots of mass murder as an instrument of financial gain and state power, from the Armenian genocide during World War I to Hitler’s Holocaust through the practice of genocide today. Detailing how the existing structures of international law and commerce have encouraged mass killings, corporate looting, and profiteering at the expense of innocent victims, The Splendid Blond Beast is a disturbing and profound book about the success of evil in our time. The award-winning author of Blowback and Science of Coercion, Simpson also served as research director for Marcel Ophüls’s Oscar-winning documentary, Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.
Kissing The Witch
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Author : Emma Donoghue
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Kissing The Witch written by Emma Donoghue and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Fiction categories.
Fairytales with a twist from the Man Booker and Orange prize-shortlisted author of Room. In Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue unwinds thirteen fairy tales and writes them anew: Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother, Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror, and Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. In these stories, Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances – sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.
Monuments And Maidens
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Monuments And Maidens written by Marina Warner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Social Science categories.
'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters western cityscapes... As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting answers' - Lorna Sage, Observer An entertaining and enlightening book about the relationship between allegory and female form from one of the great feminists and cultural historians of our time, Marina Warner.
Joan Of Arc
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000
Joan Of Arc written by Marina Warner and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint.
Irma Grese And Auschwitz
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Author : Raymond Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-11-04
Irma Grese And Auschwitz written by Raymond Jennings and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with categories.
Learn the Secrets of the Holocaust and the Blonde Beast! Do you want to know more about the Holocaust? Are you fascinated by this dark chapter in human history? Do you find it hard to understand? If so, then Irma Grese: Secrets of Irma and the Holocaust is the book you've been looking for. It gives you an overview of the Second World War, and describes the experience of the Holocaust. You'll learn about Irma Grese, a female concentration camp guard who was notorious for her cruelty and dedication to the Nazi party. Irma Grese: Secrets of Irma and the Holocaust is available for Download Now. Because of her gender and youth, Irma Grese remains known today for her crimes against humanity in the camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Executed at 22 years old, she was the youngest woman to die under British law in the 20th century. Irma Grese has gained notoriety as a villain in many diaries, journals, and creative works of Holocaust survivors. She has been studied by historians, psychologists, and psychiatrists across the world. What could cause someone to act as she did? After reading this book, you'll be able to decide for yourself.
Jujitsu Rabbi And The Godless Blonde
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Author : Rebecca Dana
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-01-24
Jujitsu Rabbi And The Godless Blonde written by Rebecca Dana and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“For a generation of women who grew up watching Sex and the City, Manhattan is the Promised Land—or as Rebecca Dana puts it in her hilarious, self-deprecating new memoir, it’s ‘my Jerusalem—the shining city off in the distance, the only place to go’…[An] insightful tale of two fish out of water.”—O Magazine Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of moving to New York. After college, life in the city turned out just as she’d planned: glamorous parties; beautiful people; the perfect job, apartment and man. But when it all comes crashing down, she is catapulted into another world. She moves into Brooklyn’s Lubavitch community, and lives with Cosmo, a young Russian rabbi and jujitsu enthusiast. While Cosmo faces his disenchantment with Orthodoxy, Rebecca finds that her religion—the books and films that made New York seem like salvation—has also failed her. Shuttling between the worlds of religious extremism and secular excess, faith and fashion, Rebecca goes on a search for meaning. A mix of Shalom Auslander and The Odd Couple, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is a thought-provoking tale for the twenty-first century. Includes a Readers Guide
No Go The Bogeyman
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-31
No Go The Bogeyman written by Marina Warner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Social Science categories.
Ogres and giants, bogeymen and bugaboos embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular fiction, from tales such as 'Jack the Giant Killer' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, from the Titans of Greek mythology to the dinosaurs of JURASSIC PARK, from Frankenstein TO MEN IN BLACK. Following her brilliant study of fairy tales, FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE, Marina Warner's rich, enthralling new book explores the ever increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the strategems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up -from horror stories to lullabies and jokes. Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling with vigorous intelligence, creative originality and relish, the myths and fears which define our sensibilites. Illustrated with a wealth of images - from the beautiful and the bizarre to the downright scary -this is a tour de force of scholarship and imagination.