No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999
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- Hardcover
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Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.The Book Shed
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light to tips, corners and edges of book and priced jacket which is rubbed, soiled. A study of the literature and folklore of fright. "Warner has amassed an eclectic compendium of fact, folklore, history and art, examining the seductive charm of monsters, ogres, witches and other figures of horror from centuries past." First printing, no additional printings listed. Browse my books: www.abebooks.com/The-Book-Shed-Benson-VT-U.S.A/602765/sf Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed, an ABE Heritage Seller, has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997 An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.
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- Title
- No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
- Author
- Marina Warner
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374223017
- ISBN 13
- 9780374223014
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Folklore
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.
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