Fear of Rabid Dogs
Margaret Anne Doody, 18 August 1994
Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time
by Marina Warner.
Vintage, 104 pp., £4.99, April 1994,0 09 943361 3 Show More
by Marina Warner.
Vintage, 104 pp., £4.99, April 1994,
“... of ‘aliens’ in various guises, including those appearing in monster-breeding films such as King Kong. As Warner makes clear in her opening lecture, myths are very versatile, though it is a piece of social engineering to pretend that a myth-story is always the same, and the same from time immemorial, because it is true. Actually, myths renew and ... ”