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Loading... Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (edition 1995)by Marina Warner
Work InformationSix Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More by Marina Warner
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This slim volume is made up of essays Warner presented via a BBC radio show on themes often found in myth and fairy tale. Most interestingly, Warner also addresses current sociological problems at the same time. In her opening essay 'Monstrous Mothers' she addresses misogyny, the 'problem' of single mothers, and Medea's literary legacy. Unlike most of Warner's work, I found this volume highly readable: the fact that these are the verbatim essays as they were read on the air helps immeasurably, I think. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesReith Lectures (1994)
In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination. She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current despair about children and the loss of childhood innocence; the changing attitude of myths about wild men and beasts and the undertow of racism which is expressed in myths about savages and cannibals. The last lecture, on home, brings the themes together to examine ideas about who we are and where we belong, with reference to the British nation and its way of telling its own history. Using a range of examples from video games to Turner's paintings, from popular films to Keats, Marina Warner interweaves her critique of fantasy, dream and prejudice. No library descriptions found. |
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