Warner, Marina 1946-

Alone of all her sex : the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner( Book )
19 editions published between 1976 and 2000 in English and held by 2,020 libraries worldwide

From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers by Marina Warner( Book )
25 editions published between 1994 and 1999 in English and Portuguese and held by 1,784 libraries worldwide
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.

Joan of Arc : the image of female heroism by Marina Warner( Book )
33 editions published between 1981 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,781 libraries worldwide
Joan has a unique role in Western imagination-she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc, both as she lived in her own time and as she has "grown" in the human imagination over the five centuries since her death. She has examined the court documents from Joan of Arc's 1431 Inquisition trial for heresy and woven the facts together with an analysis of the histories, biographies, plays, and paintings and sculptures that have appeared over time to honor this heroine and symbol of France's nationhood. Warner shows how the few facts that are known about the woman Joan have been shaped to suit the aims of those who have chosen her as their hero. The book places Joan in the context of the mythology of the female hero and takes note of her historical antecedents, both pagan and Christian and the role she has played up to the present as the embodiment of an ideal, whether as Amazon, saint, child of nature, or personification of virtue.

No go the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock by Marina Warner( Book )
15 editions published between 1998 and 2007 in English and held by 1,171 libraries worldwide
In this work on the age old images and stories about frightening men the author goes beyond the terrain she covered in her previous book From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores the darker, wilder realm where ogres and giants devour children, where bogeymen haunt the night and each of us must face our bugaboos. The book considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age. Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented to allay the very terrors that our dreams of reason conjure up. The author shows how these images and stories, while they may unfold along different lines, scaring, lulling, or making mock, always have the strategic, simultaneous purpose of both arousing and controlling the underlying fear. In an analysis of material long overlooked by cultural critics, historians, and even psychologists, she revises our understanding of storytelling in contemporary culture, of masculine identity, racial stereotyping, and the dangerous, unthinking ways we perpetuate the bogeyman.

Monuments & maidens : the allegory of the female form by Marina Warner( Book )
15 editions published between 1985 and 2000 in English and held by 1,036 libraries worldwide

Queen Victoria's sketchbook by Marina Warner( Book )
9 editions published between 1979 and 1981 in English and held by 946 libraries worldwide

The Dragon Empress; the life and times of Tzʻu-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 by Marina Warner( Book )
6 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 887 libraries worldwide

The lost father by Marina Warner( Book )
23 editions published between 1988 and 2002 in 5 languages and held by 806 libraries worldwide
The story of Anna and her maternal grandfather, Davide Pittagora. Anna is writing a novel -"The Duel"--About her grandfather who died young from injuries received in a duel. Anna imagines she knows what the reason for the duel was, and writes her novel around her assumptions.

Indigo, or, Mapping the waters by Marina Warner( Book )
16 editions published between 1992 and 1994 in English and German and held by 732 libraries worldwide
Indigo is a shimmering, lyrical novel about power and transformation. Inspired by Shakespeare's magic play The Tempest, prizewinning writer Marina Warner refashions the drama to explore the restless conflicts between the inhabitants of a Caribbean island and the English family who settled it. From that violent moment in the seventeenth century when the English buccaneer Kit Everard arrives at Enfant-Beate, the islanders' fate is intertwined, often tragically, with that.

Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds : ways of telling the self by Marina Warner( Book )
14 editions published between 2002 and 2007 in English and held by 700 libraries worldwide
"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." -- from the publisher.