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On Fairy Tales: Carol Mavor and Marina Warner
On Fairy Tales: Carol Mavor and Marina Warner
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58 minutes
Released:
Jan 30, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Carol Mavor, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester, reflects in her latest book Aurelia (Reaktion) on the very particular place that fairy tales hold in our culture and in the popular imagination. 'Aurelia is as strange, enigmatic, and full of magic as its subjects' writes the essayist Maggie Nelson. Mavor was in conversation with cultural critic, mythographer and historian of the folk tale Marina Warner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jan 30, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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