Featuring: 2 Lectures by:

MARINA WARNER

SPIRIT VISIONS:

"The Inner Eye: Figuring the Invisible"

"Ectoplasm: Materializing the Impalpable"

Marina Warner is a novelist and critic whose books cover subjects as diverse as fairy tales, popular culture, cinema, the Virgin Mary, and Joan of Arc. Alone of all her Sex: The Myth and cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) examines the religious and social significance of Mary in different historical periods. Her other works includes Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism (1981) and From the Beast to the Blond: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1994). Her most recent work and eighth critical study, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998) is an exploration of figures of terror and the various strategies that we have used to cope with our fears over time. She is a has written six novels including In a Dark Wood (1977) , The Skating Party (1982), and Indigo, or Mapping the Waters (1992). Her 1988 novel, the Lost Father won the Regional Commonwealth Writers Prize and Macmillan Silver Pen award. Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the Getty Center, the British Film Institute, and at Cambridge University. She has taught at Erasmus University, Rotterdam , the University of Ulster, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Stanford University. She also presented the Reith Lectures on the BBC were published in the United States as Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angles, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More . . . (1994).

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Image: Francisco de Goya, Contra el bien general , 1810. Scan by Mark Harden, The Artchive.

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