Books written by Marina Warner
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Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature & Culture
"Since the early 1970's, 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, subtle...
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The Absent Mother, Or Women Against Women in the "old Wives Tales": Lecture Delivered as "Tinbergen Professor" at the Erasmus...
The Absent Mother, Or Women Against Women in the "old Wives Tales": Lecture Delivered as "Tinbergen Professor" at the Erasmus...
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Under the Aegis: The Virtues
Under the Aegis: The Virtues
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Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear
In Monsters of Our Own Making, Marina Warner explores the dark realm where ogres devour children and bogeymen haunt the night.
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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
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.
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Explores classical and modern fairy tales to argue that fairy tales are a mirror of human understanding and culture.
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Refugee Tales: Volume II
Here, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.
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Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am
Already a sensation in the UK and winner of the prestigious 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement in illustration and book design, Sara Fanelli's Sometimes I Think,...
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Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment
These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences.
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
... Joseph Banks: A Life (Chicago, 1987), 179–86, 190—1 for a highly entertaining account of Omai's visit to England; ... 3 (1979), 81–118; Iain McCalman, Spectacles of Knowledge: OMAI as Ethnographic Travelogue', in Cook & Omai.
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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
Explores the mythological roots of such popular superstitions as giants, ogres, and bogeyman, and their psychological implications
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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
A book which explores the ever increasing presence of ogres, giants, bogeymen and other such figures of male terror in popular fiction and the stratagems we invent to allay the...
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The Influence Machine: 19-31 Oct. 2000. Madison Square Park, New York. 1-12 Nov. 2000. Soho Square, London
The Influence Machine: 19-31 Oct. 2000. Madison Square Park, New York. 1-12 Nov. 2000. Soho Square, London
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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
"Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Puss in Boots' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, and from "Frankenstein' to 'Men in ...
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World of Myths: Volume Two
Vol. two is a compilations of five books. Each author describes the cultural background, written sources, and continuing legacy of the major myths, illustrated throughout by archaeological and artistic evidence.
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Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir
The Incomparable Hildegarde ' trailed clouds of sultry glamour from Berlin and Paris , of the Blue Angel , Mistinguett and Arletty , foreshadowing more recent divas - Dalida , Madonna - and she liked to lay claim to this quasi - royal ...
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
Marina Warner traces this story against a background of historical encounters with different cultures, especially with the Caribbean.
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Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir
Deeply felt, closely observed, rich with strange lore, Esmond and Ilia is a picture of vanished worlds, a portrait of two people struggling to know each other and themselves, a daughter’s story of trying to come to terms with a past that ...
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW
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Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists
This book will appeal to any student of art history, those interested in philosophy, feminism, and more generally in the humanities.