In an interview ( “I don’t want a society glued to gameshows”, 05/03/2012) with East Anglian Daily Times, Marina Warner, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 4 of Interlitq, urges the imperative need to fuel the imagination with the power of myths and, with regard to her latest book “Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights”, states: “I started writing it during the [period of] maximum propaganda for the war on terror, the ‘clash of civilisations’, and that was the script that was being peddled very much in the mass media. I try to show that our cultures have been extremely intertwined in many ways: through trade, through ideas, through drinking coffee together, even! – and, through, of course, telling stories”
In an interview ( “I don’t want a society glued to gameshows”, 05/03/2012) with East Anglian Daily Times, Marina Warner, the novelist, mythographer and cultural historian, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 4 of Interlitq, urges the imperative need to fuel the imagination with the power of myths and, with regard to her latest book Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights. states: “I started writing it during the [period of] maximum propaganda for the war on terror, the ‘clash of civilisations’, and that was the script that was being peddled very much in the mass media. I try to show that our cultures have been extremely intertwined in many ways: through trade, through ideas, through drinking coffee together, even! – and, through, of course, telling stories”.
