Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of FearUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2007 M02 23 - 472 páginas Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thrive amidst society's ever-increasing attraction to the thrill of experiencing fear. Today many of us seek out horror movies, read thrillers and Gothic novels, and visit haunted houses, in our endless pursuit of the macabre and exciting. In Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear, Marina Warner explores the world of bogeys from their incarnation as ogres in nursery tales to their current role in the new, twisted reality of contemporary conflicts, where there is no guarantee of a happy ending. Marina Warner digs into the past to uncover the origins of these myths, to examine their history and social function over time. Paying particular attention to the prevalence of male figures of terror, Warner reveals their connections to current ideas about sexuality and power, identity and ethnicity, youth and age. |
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... nursery itself , the aggression expressed towards the child : Ninne ninne sause , der Tod steckt hinterm Hause . Er hat ein kleines Korbelein , da steckt er die bösen Kinder ' nein . Die guten lasst er sitzen und kauft ihn rote Mützen ...
... nursery literature , in favour of far more innocuous and gentle berceuses , the kind set to music by Brahms and Chopin in the nineteenth century . The earliest extant collection of nursery rhymes stressed their musical charac- ter in ...
... Nursery to Literature ( Jeffer- son , NC and London , 1987 ) , p . 5 . innocuous and gentle berceuses See A Little Pretty Pocket - Book of 1765 and Mother Goose's Melody of around the same time . The earliest ... collection Delamar ...