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This is a book about sanctuary: what it means for people in desperate situations today, and what refuge and displacement has meant for people throughout history, and the canons of literature and myth.

An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick's erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation. In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954-1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes-the female body (her own), the aesthetics of pleasure, the material variety and wonder of phenomena-but took them in a new, flamboyant direction. In thi...

By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical.Esmond and Ilia follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs. Esmond Warner, an ...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW

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Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries.

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A fascinating study of the symbolism of Joan of Arc in her own time and ever since in literature, politics, on the stage, and on screen.

From one of our most iconic writers, a luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure, loss, and the banks of the Nile.

From one of our most iconic writers, a luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure, loss, and the banks of the Nile.

Kötü kalpli kraliceden masum prensese, hain kurttan kirmizi baslikli kiza, ucan halilar, sihirli anahtarlar, hiclikten bitenler, uyuyan devler, konusan hayvanlar, ölüp dirilenlerle örülmüs hikayeler, cocuklugumuza ve yetiskinligimize yüzyillardir sizip duran masallar...Marina Warnerin yillarini adadigi calismasi, masallarin hem kusaklar hem de farkli kültürler arasinda akip giden, esneyip katilasan, evrilip yeniden kurulan, evcillesen, kimi za...

Diverse new anthology from the acclaimed editors of The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun. These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders, the hidden and the forbidden, the lonely and the lovers. This is their time.

This polemical exploration of art addresses the political and social in relation to the contextual and aesthetic, applying a literary perspective to artists' use of disturbing or uncanny material to convey interior states as well as the visual.

I quattro racconti e il radiodramma di Marina Warner raccolti in questo volume rinnovano le suggestioni del meraviglioso che hanno da sempre contraddistinto il mito e la favolistica, ricreandole nel presente e modificandoli in una tessitura in cui rimane volutamente visibile la connessione tra passato e contemporaneità. Warner offre nuova vita a personaggi femminili delle favole, della Bibbia, dell'agiografia e della letteratura lasciando spaz...

A lively and engaging exploration of fairy tales and their meaning~Considers fairy tale as both a genre and a literary form~Explores an array of classic and contemporary examples~Looks at cultural, social and political influence of fairy tales~Reveals how fairy tales use the characteristics of fantasy and imagination~Highlights questions of gender, feminism, and psychoanalysis in the fairy tale tradition~Considers a number of visual interpreta...

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