No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
10 best books like No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (Marina Warner): The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Woody Allen and Philosophy: [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?], More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691114692 |
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing...
| Author | Mark T. Conard |
| ISBN | 0812694538 |
Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films? And why should anyone care?
Focusing on different works and varied aspects of Allen's multifaceted output, these essays explore the philosophical undertones...
| Author | William Irwin |
| ISBN | 0812695720 |
This follow-up to the hugely successful The Matrix and Philosophy is broken down into seven "scenes" that explore some of the deeper issues in the movie series. Scene one examines the issues of fate, fortune, causation, and determinism in the trilogy. Scene two asks readers to consider the concept...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Sheldon Cashdan |
| ISBN | 0465008968 |
In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying...
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0385486812 |
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
| Author | Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN | 0814766838 |
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.
The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
| Author | Peter Gay |
| ISBN | 0393052052 |
Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts,...
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 0822313952 |
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted...
The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
| Author | John P. Muller |
| ISBN | 0801832934 |
The Purloined Poe is at once astonishing and frustrating. It is incredible to read Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and then watch how the story unfolds in the hands of critics like psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and deconstructionist Jacques Derrida. I've gone through the experience of reading the short...
| Author | Richard V. Greene |
| ISBN | 0812696018 |
Though Bram Stoker coined the term, the undead have stalked the human imagination for eons, appearing in the myths and legends of nearly all cultures. The concept of people, or unpeople, interacting with others while devoid of humanity provides a wealth of material for philosophical speculation....
| Author | Simon Blackburn |
| ISBN | 0195312074 |
I will review this book by parts.
The Editor's Note explains that this is but a part of a lecture and book series on the Seven Deadly Sins cosponsored by the New York Public Library and Oxford University Press. Interesting to note then that the author/lecturer never equated lust with sin.
The...
| Author | Margaret J. Wheatley |
| ISBN | 1609945360 |
AN INVITATION TO WARRIORSHIP
I wrote this book for you if you offer your work as a contribution to others, whatever your work might be, and if now you find yourself feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and sometimes despairing even as you paradoxically experience moments of joy, belonging, and...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691099685 |
Together for the first time in one paperback volume are two of Jung's major late works, in the version published in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, as rendered by Jung's official translator. "The Undiscovered Self" (1957) integrates many of Jung's lifelong social and psychological concerns and...
Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415977819 |
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious...
