Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of FearUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2007 M02 23 - 441 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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... Natural History , Pittsburgh , conducted me through their wondrous archives of insects . Eleni Vassilika and Penny Wilson of the Fitzwilliam Museum guided me to magic amulets ; at the BBC , Beaty Rubens traced dozens of recordings of ...
... nature ' . The word titanos , in Greek , means ' quicklime - the white powder obtained from firing lime and marble has such a devastating effect on flesh , burning it up on con- tact , that it is used in burial pits . Being also white ...
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