Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook] download free by Marina Warner
- Listen audiobook: Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction
- Author: Marina Warner
- Release date: 2018/6/30
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199532155
- Rating: 9.75 of 10
- Votes: 780
- Review by: Olevia Earley
- Review rating: 7.89 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/17
- Duration: 2H22M45S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: TTA, OGG, MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, WMA, MP3, MPEG-4 DST (compression RZ, RAR, ARJ, ZIP, TAR.BZ2, DMG, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M35S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater powerto enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. In this Very Short Introduction, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in alltheir brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Drawing on a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, andHans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White, Warner forms a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Folklore, Myths & Legends, Literary Studies: General, Myth & Legend Told As Fiction, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- Download servers: Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, FileServe, Torrent, ZendTo, 4Shared, Hotfile, MyUpload, ge.tt. Compressed in RZ, RAR, ARJ, ZIP, TAR.BZ2, DMG, ALZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 8.21 USD
- Dimensions: 112x174x12mm
- Weight: 146g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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