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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
January 1, 1999
Pages
435
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374223014
ISBN-10
0374223017
Dimensions
1.75 by 6.50 by 10 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$35.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The author of From the Beast to the Blonde explores the mythological roots of such popular superstitions as giants, ogres, and bogeymen and their psychological implications, with the help of black-and-white and color plates. 15,000 first printing.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description:
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.
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.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (January 1, 1999)
9780374223014 | details & prices | 435 pages | 6.50 × 10.00 × 1.75 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Explores the mythological roots of such popular superstitions as giants, ogres, and bogeyman, and their psychological implications
About: Explores the mythological roots of such popular superstitions as giants, ogres, and bogeyman, and their psychological implications
from Gardners Books (October 22, 1998); titled "No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock"
9780701165932 | details & prices | 446 pages | List price $41.65
About: A book which explores the ever increasing presence of ogres, giants, bogeymen and other such figures of male terror in popular fiction and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up.
About: A book which explores the ever increasing presence of ogres, giants, bogeymen and other such figures of male terror in popular fiction and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up.
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