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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Happy Hallowe’en with Betty Boop
Happy Hallowe’en to all from OGOM. What a fabulous party this is! Don’t forget to book for the free Being Human: Redeeming the Wolf event on 18 November 2017–tickets here!
Posted in Events
Tagged animality, eco-Gothic, Fairy tales, humanism, Werewolves, Wolves, YA literature
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OGOM Halloween Wolves!
Redeeming the wolf: a story of persecution, loss and rediscovery By the Open Graves, Open Minds Project For this Halloween blog post special, the Open Graves, Open Minds Project explores whether everything you’ve heard about the big bad wolf is … Continue reading
Vampire Pumpkins and Scary Shrunken-Head Swedes
Happy Halloween OGOMERS!! I hope you are enjoying some spooky festivities. I have written in the past about swede or turnip Jack ‘0’ Lanterns being the most authentic and we used to carve these as children in rural Cumbria. Here’s … Continue reading
‘A devout but nearly silent listener’: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
My article, ‘”A devout but nearly silent listener”: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)’, has been published in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 16 (Autumn 2017) alongside other excellent articles. Here’s a brief … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, OGOM Research
Tagged dialogue, Frankenstein, Gothic novel, Mary Shelley, Prometheus, Romanticism
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How long have we believed in vampires? (from The Conversation)
How long have we believed in vampires? EMVDS-photography/Shutterstock.com Sam George, University of Hertfordshire Vampires have a contested history. Some claim that the creatures are “as old as the world”. But more recent arguments suggest that our belief in vampires and … Continue reading
How long have we believed in vampires?
Sam has an article here, ‘How long have we believed in vampires?‘ for The Conversation on the long history of vampires.
Female Werewolves and the Big, Bad Wolf
In anticipation of OGOM’s Being Human event, ‘Redeeming the Wolf: A Story of Persecution, Loss, and Rediscovery‘ (tickets for this free event still available here), here are three items which may instruct or amuse. Alexandra MoeHagen argues here that ‘Female … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, comics, fairy tale, Feminism, gender, Red Riding Hood, Werewolves, Wolves
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YA Fiction Reading Lists: Otherness and Oddity
Some more tempting reading lists of YA fiction for you. First, from Penguin Teen, ‘10 YA Characters Who Will Mess with Your Mind‘: a list of novels with unreliable narrators or narrators who unsettle. I would add to this the … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Lists
Tagged dystopia, Fantasy, Genre, otherness, Paranormal romance, realism, SF, YA Fiction
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CfP: Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester, 31 July-3 August 2018
I should have posted this earlier; my apologies! The Call for Papers is now out for the 14th conference of the International Gothic Association, themed ‘Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches’. Manchester Metropolitan University are hosting the event on … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Frankenstein, Genre, Gothic, Hybridity, IGA, interdisciplinarity, mode, transmediation
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CfA: The Victorian Roots of Fantasy
A Call for Articles on the Victorian roots of fantasy for the journal Fantasy Art and Studies (deadline 10 December 2017). Undoubtedly the Victorian era was a fruitful period for the emergence of imaginative fiction. Now, at a moment when … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged fairytale, Fantasy, Folklore, George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, neo-Victorianism, steampunk, Victorian literature
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