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 Format: Paperback, 462 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374524874
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
Warner "explores the relationship between fairy tales and their historical and social contexts. She . . . {argues} that the teller of the tale . . . inevitably reflects the prevailing social prejudices for and against women. Warner first traces the 'layered character of the traditional narrator' and the interconnections between storytellers and heterodox forms of knowledge. In the second half of the book, Warner takes up a sampling of tales and {seeks to} demonstrate in them such adult themes as the presence of painful rivalry and hatred between women (Cinderella). Finally, she explores the association of blondeness in the heroine with preciousness and desirability." (Libr J) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
Marina Warner looks at storytelling, at its practitioners and images in art, legend, and history - from the prophesying enchantresses who lure men to a false paradise to jolly Mother Goose, with her masqueraders in the real world, from sibyls and the Queen of Sheba to Angela Carter. The storytellers are frequently women (or were until men like Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen started writing down the women's stories), and Marina Warner asks how changing prejudices about women affect the status of fairy tales: are they sources of wisdom and moral guidance, or temptations encouraging indulgence in romantic and vengeful fantasies? From the Beast to the Blonde considers old wives' tales in all their luxuriant detail and with a strong sense of the historical contexts in which they developed. Ms. Warner's fresh new interpretations show us how the real-life themes in these famous stories evolved: rivalry and hatred between women ("Cinderella" and "The Sleeping Beauty"), the ways of men and marriage ("Bluebeard" and "Beauty and the Beast"), not to mention neglect, incest, death in childbirth, murder, and racial prejudice. As she suggests in her superb closing chapter, happy endings come only after stumbles and falls; yet in some sense the story of tale-telling is never done.
| | | | Annotation
In this richly illustrated new book, a celebrated English cultural historian looks at storytelling in art, legend, and history--interpreting the history of old wives' tales from sibyls and the Queen of Sheba to Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter. "A landmark book."--Victoria Glendinning, The Daily Telegraph.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Richly illustrated and beautifully written, Warner's fresh interpretation of fairy tales from Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm to Angela Carter is "brilliant work: wise, witty, and as magisterially omniscient as any Sibylline oracle."--The New Statesman. "A landmark book. Warner [is] a terrific writer and original scholar"--Victoria Glendinning
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