Télécharger le livre :  From The Beast To The Blonde
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Entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts in which they flourished. It also lifts the curtain on the tellers...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Once Upon a Time
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries....

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Once Upon a Time
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries....

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Joan of Arc
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The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine every movement has...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-03-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Alone of All Her Sex
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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-03-22

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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-03-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Joan of Arc
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The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine every movement has...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-03-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Father
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Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism.According to family legend, David...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dragon Empress
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From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality:...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Wonder Tales
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Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Télécharger le livre :  No Go the Bogeyman
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Ogres and giants, bogeymen and bugaboos embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular fiction, from tales such as 'Jack the Giant Killer' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, from the Titans of Greek mythology to the dinosaurs of JURASSIC PARK, from...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Monuments And Maidens
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'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Managing Monsters
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In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Leto Bundle
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When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Signs & Wonders
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Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections. This resonant collection draws...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Murderers I Have Known
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Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
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Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-02-05

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Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-10-10

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