Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature & Culture

כריכה קדמית
Chatto & Windus, 2003 - 516 עמודים
"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 and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our websof images, ideas and beliefs. This remarkable, resonant collection draws together essays written over twenty-five years, offering a wide-ranging retrospective of her changing ideas on literature and culture - on fiction, drama, religion, language and fairy tale. The different sections range from explorations of our taste for the miraculous, whether it be the Virgin Mary and angels, or voodoo and showers of toads, to our need for heroes and villians, from Joan of Arc to Myra Hindley."

מתוך הספר

תוכן

The Crushed Butterflies of War 1972
13
Making It Big in the New World 1986
45
Let Women Keep Silent 1990
55
זכויות יוצרים

17 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים

מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

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<span dir=ltr>Edward Stourton</span>‏
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מידע על המחבר (2003)

Marina Warner has an international reputation as a critic, historian and a novelist. Her recent non-fiction works include The Beast to the Blonde, No Go the Bogeyman and Fantastic Metamorphoses, while her fiction includes the novels The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Indigo and The Leto Bundle, and most recently a short-story collection Murderers I Have Known.

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