No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock

Warner, Marina

ISBN 10: 0374223017 / ISBN 13: 9780374223014

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

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Seller Inventory # 0374223017-3-37023064

Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374223017
• ISBN 13: 9780374223014
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 31 ounces

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Synopsis

An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men.

In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores the darker, wilder realm where ogres and giants devour children, where bogeymen haunt the night and each of us must face our bugaboos. No Go the Bogeyman considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.

Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented to allay the very terrors that our dreams of reason conjure up. Warner shows how these images and stories, while they may unfold along different lines--scaring, lulling, or making mock-always have the strategic, simultaneous purpose of both arousing and controlling the underlying fear. In a brilliant analysis of material long overlooked by cultural critics, historians, and even psychologists, Warner revises our understanding of storytelling in contemporary culture, of masculine identity, racial stereotyping, and the dangerous, unthinking ways we perpetuate the bogeyman.

About the Author

Marina Warner is the author of novels and short stories as well as works of nonfiction. Her most recent books include From the Beast to the Blonde (FSG, 1995) and Wonder Tales (FSG, 1996). She lives in London.