Book description
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 together essays written over
twenty-five years, offering a wide-ranging retrospective of her
developing ideas. Whether writing on Vietnam, Mrs Thatcher, the dollar
sign and the twin towers, Queen Elizabeth I and incest, weeping
Madonnas, zombies or fairytales, Marian Warner displays a rare gift
for blending historical and anthropological insights with deft and
perceptive readings on individual works.
Marina Warner spent her early years in Cairo, and was educated at a
convent in Berkshire, and then in Brussels and London, before studying
modern languages at Oxford. She is an internationally acclaimed cultural
historian, critic, novelist and short story writer. From her early books
on the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc, to her bestselling studies of fairy
tales and folk stories,
From the Beast to the Blonde
and
No Go the Bogeyman
, her work has explored different figures in myth and fairy tale and the
art and literature they have inspired. She lectures widely in Europe,
the United States and the Middle East, and is currently Professor in the
Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex.
She was appointed CBE in 2008.
www. marinawarner. com
