From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers - Hardcover

Warner, Marina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374159017 ISBN 13: 9780374159016

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995

Synopsis

From classical enchantresses to Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm, a cultural study of fairy tales shows what they reveal about the changing status of women, the ways of men, racial prejudice, and other serious subjects.

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Review:

One dare not even call it seminal, yet in this ground-breaking work, English novelist and historian Marina Warner casts herself as the female Joseph Campbell in a fascinating and lively book that opens with the observation that "storytelling makes women thrive -- and not exclusively women," and then lifts the veil on both tellers and tales ranging from Sibyl to the late, great Angela Carter, from Lot's daughters to Disney's "Little Mermaid." She finds a not-so-hidden history of women, sex, power, fear -- and even healing -- lurking therein. An eye-opening reworking of our common myth pool.

About the Author:

Marina Warner has been a Scholar at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (1987-88), Tinbergen Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Ulster (1994-95).

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0374159017
• ISBN 13: 9780374159016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 463