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Author Archives: William the Bloody
The Company of Wolves: Angela Carter and Neil Jordan
From the brilliant Angela Carter Online website (thanks to Caleb Sivyer), here’s a fascinating discussion between Angela Carter and Neil Jordan, the director of the film adaptation of Carter’s wolf narratives as The Company of Wolves.
Posted in Interviews
Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, Company of Wolves, Film, Neil Jordan, Wolves
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Theodore von Holst, ‘Frankenstein’ (1831)
A very erudite and penetrating article here by Ian Haywood of the University of Roehampton on the frontispiece to Mary Shelley’s 1831 edition of Frankenstein by Theodore von Holst, a protégé of Henry Fuseli. Haywood’s essay uses the image of … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged art, Frankenstein, illustration, Mary Shelley, Monsters
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CFP: Call for Articles: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Screen Adaptations
And following my last post on Steampunk and Neo-Victorianism, there’s a call here for articles in a collected volume on Victorian and Neo-Victorian Screen Adaptations.
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged adapation, Film, Genre, Gothic, neo-Victorianism, TV, Victorian literature
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Steampunk and Neo-Victorianism
The rapid interbreeding of genres around fantastic literature in general but particularly (and this has been my focus) with YA fantasy has found Neo-Victorian/Steampunk in bed with paranormal romance; I’m hoping to write about a couple of novels with this … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged Fantasy, Genre, humour, neo-Victorianism, parody, steampunk
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Popular Fiction Research Hub
There’s a great Facebook group for all those interested in popular fiction–the Popular Fiction Research Hub. The organisers, Lisa Fletcher, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins, describe it as : A meeting place for people interested in research about the writing, … Continue reading
CFP: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, August 2-5, 2017
Yet another exciting conference–on fairy tale in situations of conflict: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies, at Wayne State University (whose press publish a great series on fairy tale studies), 2-5 August 2017. Deadline … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, fairy tale, gender, Genre, postcolonial, war
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CFP: Special Issue on the Trickster, Marvels & Tales
CFP– Special Issue on the Trickster Subversive, deceptive, wily, and comical, the trickster spans national traditions, genres, and historical periods. Often represented as a deity, animal, or human, between upper and lower worlds, the trickster functions as the creator and … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged Folklore, Folktales, gender, postcolonialism, Trickster
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Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 10 Dec 2016-19 Mar 2017
It’s rare that I don’t post anything on Angela Carter. And so here’s an event, or series of events, in Bristol on Carter that looks really amazing: Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter. There’s an exhibition of works that … Continue reading
CFP: Re-orienting the Fairy Tale, Kanagawa University, Japan, 29-30 March 2017
This conference on Re-orienting the Fairy Tale, subtitled ‘Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations across Cultures’, looks wonderful and covers the area of research I’m concentrating on at the moment–fairy tale adaptation in various media is a key concern of all of us … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, art, Fairy tales, Film, globalisation, graphic novels, identity, Japan, National Identity, non-Western culture
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Fairy Tales, feminism, and strangeness
A handful of interesting items on fairy tale here. First, a very scholarly but readable and fascinating account of the classic English fairy tale, ‘Mr Fox’ (a Bluebeard variant). Then, there’s a review, ‘A Dwarf Becomes a Wolf Girl in … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, Fairy tales, Feminism, Folklore, Giambattista Basile, women
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