No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
by:
Marina Warner (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781409020752 (1409020754)
Publish date: August 31st 2011
Publisher: Vintage Digital
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...