An edition of No Go the Bogeyman (1998)

No go the bogeyman

scaring, lulling, and making mock

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An edition of No Go the Bogeyman (1998)

No go the bogeyman

scaring, lulling, and making mock

1st American ed.

by

  • 6 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

No Go the Bogeyman 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 sleep of reason conjures up. Warner shows how these images and stories, while they may unfold along different lines - scaring, lulling, or making mock - have the strategic simultaneous purpose of both arousing and controlling the underlying fear.

In analysis of material long overlooked by cultural critics, historians, and even psychologists, Warner revises our understanding of storytelling in our contemporary culture. She asks us to reconsider the unintended consequences of our age-old, outmoded notions about masculine identity and about racial stereotyping, and warns us of the dangerous, unthinking ways we perpetuate the bogeyman.

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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
435

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Subjects

Fear, Folklore, Ghouls and ogres, Horror, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Folklore, Horror tales, history and criticism, Folklore, themes, motives, New York Times reviewed

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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
2003, Random House
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No go the bogeyman: scaring, lulling, and making mock
1999, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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No Go the Bogeyman : Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
1998, Chatto & Windus
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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
1998, Chatto & Windus
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-422) and index.
Originally published: [London] : Chatto & Windus, 1998.

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700/.453
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BF575.F2 W33 1999, BF575.F2W33 1999

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xii, 435 p., [16] p. of plates :
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395
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