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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Selfby Marina WarnerISBN 0199266840 (0-19-926684-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self'Book summary:Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, acclaimed novelist and critic Marina Warner explores the metaphorical power of metamorphoses in the evocation of human personality. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as the founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll. Beautifully illustrated and elegantly written, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds is sure to appeal to all readers interested in mythology, art, and literature. [via]
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From the Beast to the Blonde : On Fairy Tales and Their Tellersby Marina WarnerISBN 0099479516 (0-09-947951-6)
Softcover, Random House
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In a Dark Woodby Marina WarnerISBN 0140047832 (0-14-004783-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Magiciansby Marina WarnerISBN 0099437694 (0-09-943769-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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Managing Monsters : Six Myths of Our Time: The 1994 Reith Lecturesby Marina WarnerISBN 0099433613 (0-09-943361-3)
Softcover, Random House
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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Centuryby Marina WarnerISBN 0199239231 (0-19-923923-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century'Book summary:With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture. [via]
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Skating Partyby Marina WarnerISBN 0099980908 (0-09-998090-8)
Softcover, Random House
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Tales from Shakespeareby Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Marina WarnerISBN 0141441623 (0-14-144162-3)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals. Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, Tales from Shakespeare provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm. It is a captivating work of Romantic storytelling as well as the original literary homage to the Bard.More editions of Tales from Shakespeare:
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The Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steven Maclean, Marina WarnerISBN 0141439971 (0-14-143997-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Machine'Book summary:[via]When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culturenow weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanitythe sinister Morlocks. And when the scientists time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.
- Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes
- Marina Warners introduction considers Wellss development of the scientific romance and places the novel in the context of its time
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Wonder Talesby Gilbert Adair, Marina Warner , Sophie HerxheimerISBN 0195178211 (0-19-517821-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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