No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
by:
Marina Warner (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780701165932 (0701165936)
Publish date: October 22nd 1998
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Non Fiction,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Fairy Tales,
Culture,
Sociology,
Horror,
Cultural Studies,
Mythology,
Folklore
No Go the Bogeyman is a disquisition on the emotion of fear, from a point of view at the intersection of psychology with folklore and mythology. I might almost have said it's psychoanalytic, but that would be misleading, since Warner is no fan of Freud -- she thinks his storytelling is much too limi...
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