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Lädt ... No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (1999. Auflage)400 | 2 | 63,317 |
(4.07) | 2 | 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 enthralling new book explores the ever increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up. From ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling with vigorous intelligence, originality and relish, the myths and fears which define our sensibilities. 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.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Futile - the Winds - / to a Heart in Port - / Done with the Compass - / Done with the Chart -Emily Dickenson As rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them (homo non intelligentia fit omnia), this imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them (homo non intelligendo fit omnia). Perhaps the latter proposition is true than the former, for when man understands he extends his mind and comprehends all things, but when he does not understand, he makes things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them. -Giambattista Vico, Principles of New Science When children, frightened of the wolf at the window, were asked what did it want to do, the little boy replied, "Gobble me up." The little girl said, "Let's ask it." -Darrian Leader, Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. This book began with the problem on men. -Preface Think of a time near the beginning; not at the start of history, but beyond it, in that outer circles of retrospection where dates turn into foam towers of bubble-like zeros. -Prologue No Go the Bogeyman is about fear; it faces one of the most everyday yet least examined of human feelings, and it describes three of the principal methods of coping with anxieties grounded in common experience, as well as the nameless terrors that come in the dark and assail the mind. -Introduction In a poem written in Germany in 1782, the pot Goethe evoked the Erlking, or the King of the Alders, wooing a boy who was riding with his father through a dark forest: "You sweet child, come, come with me!" he calls out, "we shall play lovely games together, there are flowers of many colours by the water's edge, my mother has many garments of gold." -Chapter 1, 'Here Comes the Bogeyman!' | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf Englisch (1)▾Buchbeschreibungen 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 enthralling new book explores the ever increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up. From ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling with vigorous intelligence, originality and relish, the myths and fears which define our sensibilities. 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. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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