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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, RWA, Bristol, 10 Dec 16 – 19 Mar 17
Angela Carter is a key figure in the OGOM Project (as you might guess from the many postings here about her). Her explorations of the marvellous and the fabulous, her intertextuality and play with genres, her concerns with the metamorphoses … Continue reading
Folklore Thursday
We’ve been following Folklore Thursday‘s entertaining and informative Tweets for some time now. As the name suggests, they post snippets on folklore-related themes every Thursday, using the hashtag #FolkloreThursday. They have been supporting the OGOM blog (with much OGOM material … Continue reading
Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil
What a fabulous conference Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil at the University of Sheffield was! Brilliant organisation by the wonderful Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan. I’m feeling that post-conference melancholy. Met some great new people and caught up with … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged 1816, Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Shelley
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Marcus Sedgwick’s new novel: Saint Death
The marvellous Marcus Sedgwick, prize-winning YA and children’s novelist, has a new novel, Saint Death; an extract features here. I’m not sure whether this is in the Gothic or fantastic mode (though the title suggests Gothic undertones) like many of … Continue reading
China Miéville: Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton and the ‘pictureskew’
A very interesting essay by China Miéville on the dark side of the picturesque and English landscape in children’s literature.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged aesthetics, Children's literature, landscape, picturesque, sublime
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Tessa Farmer’s fairy taxidermy
A piece on Tessa Farmer’s grotesquely Gothic tableaux of some very unpleasant fairies, constructed from insect parts. I find this fascinating and darkly humorous–but very creepy!
CFP: Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings, Queen’s University Belfast, 7-8 April 2017
This looks a great conference, with themes very much at the heart of OGOM research (I’m particularly interested in contemporary reworkings of fairy tale, and Sam’s modules explore this too): Call for papers for a conference at Queen’s University Belfast: … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, contemporary fiction, fairy tale, Feminism, Genre, women
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Fairy tales and contemporary fiction
An interesting article, ‘Follow the breadcrumbs: why fairytales are magic for modern fiction‘, by Lincoln Michel (author of Upright Beasts). It discusses from a writer’s perspective the opportunities that modern reworkings of fairy tales have as an alternative to straightforward … Continue reading
The Future of Gothic Studies, Centre for the History of the Gothic, University of Sheffield, 8 July 2016
This networking day at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for the History of the Gothic looks well worth attending: The Centre for the History of the Gothic is pleased to host a networking day for postgraduates, early career researchers, and academic … Continue reading
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies have moved to a new–and fine-looking–website here. I’ve amended the link in the Related Links column that appears on the Blog and Resources page to lead to the new site.