From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers / Marina Warner.

By:

Warner, Marina, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Noonday Press, 1996, 1994.Edition: 1st Noonday Press pbk. edDescription: xxv, 463 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0374524874 (pbk.)
9780374524876 (pbk.)

Other title:

Beast to the blonde

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

398.2 WAR

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	398.2 WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100316380

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge in romancing?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-453) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Marina Warner is the author of four novels and many works of nonfiction, notably Alone of All Her Sex and Monuments and Maidens . Recently she edited a collection of six seventeenth-century French fairy tales, Wonder Tales . She lives in London.