Friday, April 21, 2017

Book 40: From the Beast to the Blonde

From the Beast to the Blonde: In Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner was a slog for me.  I found the first half on the "Tellers" to have too many references to art history and too many historical generalizations.  I had hoped for a more factual look at female storytellers and instead plodded through more of a history of how women were perceived.  In part two which was supposed to cover stories, I did enjoy some of the comparisons of different versions of a story, but the constant Freudian psychoanalysis was overabundant and not at all interesting to me.  1 star.

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