No Go the Bogeyman

Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

Marina Warner

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English

Vintage
03 March 2000

Film theory & criticism; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: general; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Psychology

'It is impossible not to be dazzled by the brilliance of Marina Warner... No Go the Bogeyman is delightful, enchanting, discursive, funny, erudite' - Guardian

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Puss in Boots' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, and from Frankenstein to Men in Black. Following her brilliant study of fairy tales, From the Beast to the Blonde, this rich, enthralling new book explores the ever-increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up.

By: Marina Warner
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 556g
ISBN: 9780099739814
ISBN 10: 009973981X
Pages: 445
Publication Date: 03 March 2000
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Marina Warner is a novelist, historian and critic; her fiction includes Indigo, The Lost Father (awarded a Common-wealth Writers' Prize) and the recent collection of stories, The Mermaids in the Basement. Among her acclaimed works on myth, symbolism and fairy tales are Alone of All Her Sex, Joan of Arc, Monuments and Maidens (winner of the Fawcett Prize) and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Winner of the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award). She has edited Wonder Tales, six French fairy stories, and in 1994 she gave the Reith Lectures on BBC radio, Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time. Mary Warner is currently a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Reviews for No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

Fear has become a sort of cathartic exercise. We reproduce it for mass popular entertainment, purging ourselves by immersion. Indeed, once upon a time a bestselling book in America was the illustrated catalogue of Death Row inmates. 'Scary' covers everything from abject terror to sheer delight, and it is this breadth of fear and its role in culture and society that Warner explores here. Following her study of fairy tales - From the Beast to the Blonde - she now looks at their masculine counterparts, from classical mythology through 19th-century tales of giants and ogres to today's blockbusters of cannibalism and aliens. She strips these imaginative creations back to their bare bones, considering where they came from and why we need them. (Kirkus UK)