Books written by Marina Warner

The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History

Jon Purcell was director of Library Services at St. Andrews in 2009, when the book and lecture series were first suggested, and most generously provided library funds to launch the project. Deputy director Jeremy Upton and John MacColl, ...
Kiss and Part: Short Stories

What does it mean to 'kiss and part'? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

When looking for the brothers ' motives for recognising the new , false Joan as real , we needn't look far . Jean and Pierre accompanied the real Joan during her campaigns ; Pierre was a permanent member of her military staff and was ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

She said she thought her brothers had everything she owned, all her goods, her horses, her sword and other things, worth in all more than twelve thousandécus.6 She returned to this when she was being questioned about her retinue.
Stranger Magic

The Second Old Man, for example, in the cycle of 'The Merchant and the Genie' towards the beginning of the Nights, relates how he met a slave in rags on a quayside who asked him to marry her, which he did, and how, later, his brothers ...
Fairy Tale

German dreams: the Grimm Brothers The Grimm Brothers' anthology staged a crucial encounter between the Volk and the intellectual élite; their processes of collecting and editing reveal very clearly the entanglement of sources in the ...
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self

Hearing the boy's father approaching, they tried to put the gourd back, but spilled it; and so, writes Pané, they hold that the sea came into being This shifting sequence of stories features one of the quadruplet brothers, the founding ...
Sirens

For Parker the sirens' song is a call to contemplation, not action, and these images chart his fascinated encounters with an enchanted world of forgotten archetypes.
The Outcast Hours

sugared pretzels that staff brought round on silver platters, presumably on the nights that Barry was feeling especially generous, and the unpredictable choice of soundtrack piped onto the casino floor—this early morning's selection ...
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary

"Marina Warner begins with the gospels, noting the slight allusions to Mary, and the curious confusions between the two women of that name.
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

A polemical study about the most powerful divine woman in the history of the world.
Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters

Indigo is a shimmering, lyrical novel about power and transformation. Inspired by Shakespeare's magic play The Tempest, prizewinning writer Marina Warner refashions the drama to explore the restless conflicts between...
Scheherazade's Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights

... more reliable filmography with Firoze Rangoonwalla, Indian Filmography (Bombay: J. Udeshi, 1970), and Rajendra Ojha, 75 Glorious Years of Indian Cinema (Bombay: Screen World, 1988), despite some inconsistencies between the three.
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Yet horses, the first necessity for a knight, came Joan's way quite easily. Her first was bought for her by her cousin Durand Laxart. With a colleague, Jacques Alain of Vaucouleurs, Durand Laxart paid twelve francs for her horse; ...
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-first Century

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, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition.
Scheherazade's Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights

The Story of Jullanar of the Sea Translations Lane, “Story of Gulnare of the Sea” (vol. 3) Burton, “Julnar the Sea-Born and Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia” (vol. 7) Payne, “Julnar of the Sea and Her Son King Bedr Basim of Persia” ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

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
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

Of course, the Church could not stamp out sexual desire or carnal love—indeed that was the source of its strength. ... her likeness to the female condition, Her freedom from sex, painful delivery, age, death, and all sin exalted her ...
Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination

The 1770s was marked by the emergence of themes of violence, horror and the supernatural in art: the birth of the Gothic. In 1782, the unveiling of Henry Fuseli's painting...