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In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.
She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current despair about children and the loss of childhood innocence; the changing attitude of myths about wild men and beasts and the undertow of racism which is expressed in myths about savages and cannibals. The last lecture, on home, brings the themes together to examine ideas about who we are and where we belong, with reference to the British nation and its way of telling its own history.
Using a range of examples from video games to Turner's paintings, from popular films to Keats, Marina Warner interweaves her critique of fantasy, dream and prejudice.
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Marina Warner was born in London of an Italian mother and an English father. She is the author of a collection of stories, The Mermaids in the Basement and four novels, the most recent of which is Indigo; The Lost Father (1988) was a Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She also writes history and criticism, focusing mainly on female symbolism (Alone of All Her Sex; Joan of Arc; Monuments and Maidens). She is the editor of Wonder Tales, a collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries, and author of a study of the fairy tale, From the Beast to the Blonde, both of which are published by Chatto & Windus in 1994. She has recently been made Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Ulster.
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