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Title: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner ISBN: 0-374-52487-4 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There is witchcraft in your voice ...
Comment: Marina Warner writes absolutely beautiful prose, which alone is worth the price of this book. She is ... well, "enchanting" on the subject of myth as social commentary and psychological revelation.
Warner understands that much of our mythic wisdom is feminine wisdom -- and, like Jung, she appreciates that "feminine" and "masculine" are words that describe aspects of what is universally human, not contradictory or competing factions in society.
All human intellectual disciplines involve story-telling and myth. History, for instance, is filled with mythic twists on "true" stories. (See Warner's own book on Joan of Arc, for example.) Similarly the Western chronicle of scientific achievement is a collection of metaphors ("Newton's clock," "Superstrings") that are useful for a while, then get discarded. Accordingly, the literal-minded should pause to consider exactly what they mean by "truth": Iris Murdoch has suggested that: "You may know a truth, but if it is at all complicated you have to be an artist not to utter it as a lie."
The legacy of stories we have inherited were usually first told by women, often to children, in a world where both of these groups of persons lacked real power. The stories, unsurprisingly, reflect the concerns and fears of people in such circumstances, as well as the general interests and universal dreams of human beings always and everywhere.
We need them. We cannot live without them -- both stories and women, that is.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Marina Warner's _From the Beast to the Blonde_ is a wonderful and engaging work concerning the cultural history of fairy tales. Warner explores the "stock characters" and stories of traditional tales, and in the process creates an excellent work of scholarship and criticism in an area of literature that has been relegated to the nursery, but didn't start there.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you love fairy tales..
Comment: If you love fairy tales and their backgrounds, buy this book. It's worth the read. Warner is an excellent author, and she makes a very good point regarding the role of women in the passing along of fairy tales to the next generation. This is a terrific book on fairy tales, and folklore in general.
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Title: The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim ISBN: 0679723935 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar ISBN: 0691114692 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale by Jack Zipes ISBN: 0813108349 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism by Maria M. Tatar ISBN: 0393972771 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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Title: The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions) by Jack Zipes, Jack Zipes ISBN: 039397636X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.65 |
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