The Virago Book Of Witches

The Virago Book Of Witches
Title The Virago Book Of Witches PDF eBook
Author Shahrukh Husain
Publisher Virago
Pages 250
Release 2013-09-19
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 0349004250

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Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves... Banshees - a howling night-witch and harbinger of death; She-devils - Lilith and her daughters; or Bitches - Hecate, whose chariot is drawn by dogs. Alluring women, enchantresses, seekers of revenge, wise old women and badly-behaved girls. As Shahrukh Husain says, witches are 'womanhood in all its complexity'. Over fifty stories of crones and nixies, shape shifters and beauties are here, including the loving fox witch of Japan; Italy's Witch-Bea-Witch; Scotland's Goodwife of Laggan; Biddy Earl and the terrifying Kali and Baba Yaga who comes in many forms to haunt, entice, possess, transform and challenge. From every corner of the globe, with tom-foolery, fun, strife and victory, these folklore and legends celebrate women who step out of line.

The Virago Book of Witches

The Virago Book of Witches
Title The Virago Book of Witches PDF eBook
Author Shahrukh Husain
Publisher Virago Press
Pages 244
Release 1993
Genre Tales
ISBN 9781853815621

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Stories from around the world of banshees, nixies, crones, and beauties in disguise.

Virago Book of Witches,the Bc Onl

Virago Book of Witches,the Bc Onl
Title Virago Book of Witches,the Bc Onl PDF eBook
Author Shahrukh Husain
Publisher Orbit Books
Pages
Release 1993-10-21
Genre
ISBN 9781853820205

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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Title Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales PDF eBook
Author Angela Carter
Publisher Virago
Pages 584
Release 2015-11-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0349008213

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Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.

Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism

Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism
Title Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism PDF eBook
Author Alison Waller
Publisher Routledge
Pages 240
Release 2010-12-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1135904634

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Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of psychology, sociology, and education. Rather, these models—frameworks including developmentalism, identity formation, social agency, and subjectivity in cultural space—can also be found represented symbolically in fantastic tropes such as metamorphosis, time-slip, hauntings, doppelgangers, invisibility, magic gifts, and witchcraft. These are the incredible, supernatural, and magical elements that invade the everyday and diurnal world of fantastic realism. In this original study, Alison Waller proposes a new critical term to categorize a popular and established genre in literature for teenagers: young adult fantastic realism. Though fantastic realism plays a crucial part in the short history of young adult literature, up until now this genre has typically been overlooked or subsumed into the wider class of fantasy. Touching on well-known authors including Robert Cormier, Melvin Burgess, Gillian Cross, Margaret Mahy, K.M. Peyton and Robert Westall, as well as previously unexamined writers, Waller explores the themes and ideological perspectives embedded in fantastic realist novels in order to ask whether parallel realities and fantastic identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive. One of the first studies to deal with late twentieth-century fantastic literature for young adults, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of adult attitudes toward adolescent identity.

Thealogy and Embodiment

Thealogy and Embodiment
Title Thealogy and Embodiment PDF eBook
Author Melissa Raphael
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 320
Release 1996-03-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1850757577

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'Thealogy and Embodiment' both analyses and contributes to spiritural feminism's postmodern construction of the female body as a metaphor and medium of divine generativity. Addressing religious studies and women's studies students and all those interested in contemporary spirituality, Raphael counters reformist feminism's recurrent criticism of goddess feminism as naively essentialist and sub-political. She presents spiritual feminism as a set of religio-political manoeuvres that powerfully resist such patriarchal degradations of female/natural generativity as environmental destruction, weight-reducing diets, and menstrual taboos.

The Best Horror of the Year

The Best Horror of the Year
Title The Best Horror of the Year PDF eBook
Author Ellen Datlow
Publisher Start Publishing LLC
Pages 580
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1597806463

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From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available. For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stephen King, Linda Nagata, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, and many others. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.