Signs & wonders: essays on literature & culture

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This resonant collection draws together essays written over twenty-five years, offering a wide-ranging retrospective of her developing ideas. Whether writing on Vietnam, Mrs Thatcher, the dollar sign and the twin towers, Queen Elizabeth I and incest, weeping Madonnas, zombies or fairytales, Marian Warner displays a rare gift for blending historical and anthropological insights with deft and perceptive readings on individual works.

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Altri libri di Marina Warner

• The dragon Empress: life and times of Tz'u-hsi, 1835-1908, Empress dowager of China di Marina Warner (2012)
• Stranger magic: charmed states & the Arabian nights di Marina Warner (2012)
• Signs and Wonders di Marina Warner (2010)
• Monuments and maidens: the allegory of the female form di Marina Warner (2010)
• Murderers I have known, and other stories di Marina Warner (2003)
• The Leto bundle di Marina Warner (2002)
• Wonder Tales di Marina Warner (2002)
• Alone of all her sex: the myth and cult of the Virgin Mary di Marina Warner (2000)
• No go the bogeyman: scaring, lulling, and making mock di Marina Warner (2000)
• The lost father di Marina Warner (1998)
• Wonder tales: six stories of enchantment di Marina Warner (1996)
• Monuments & maidens: the allegory of the female form di Marina Warner (1996)