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Author Archives: William the Bloody
William Gray, ‘Go into the woods – at your peril’
The Disney film of Stephen Sondheim’s darkly witty musical Into the Woods, with its ingenious interweaving of classic tales from the Grimms, is to be released soon. Here, Professor William Gray of the University of Chichester, Director of the Sussex … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Stephen Sondheim
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – 150th Anniversary
Lewis Carroll’s two classic novels for children are not immediately Gothic, or related to the undead, but they are central to any research on the fantastic and on children’s literature. This is a very rich portal to resources on Alice’s … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Children's literature, Lewis Carroll
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CFP: Victorian Authenticity & Artifice, 13-15 July 2015, Senate House, London
A conference by the Victorian Popular Literature Association. There is certainly room for work on fiction of the undead and other allied and suitably Gothic themes in popular literature. The organisers invite a broad, imaginative and interdisciplinary interpretation of the … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged CFP, Gothic, popular fiction, Victorian Gothic
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Alison Nastasi, ‘Beautiful Illustrations That Reimagine the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales’
And they are beautiful–visual interpretations by David Hockney, Edward Gorey, and others of the Grimm Brothers’ tales. In celebration of older brother Jacob Grimm’s birthday this week, we’re looking at beautifully illustrated retellings of the Grimms’ fairy tales by artists … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged adaptation, Edward Gorey, Grimm brothers, illustration, Neil Gaiman
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Miriam Allott Visting Writers Series: Bestselling Novelist Neil Gaiman, University of Liverpool, 5 March 2015
The (literally) marvellous Neil Gaiman–author of splendid works of fantasy, of graphic novels, and children’s literature–is at the University of Liverpool in March to launch the Centre for New and International Writing.
Stephanie Gallon: An Interview with Dr Dale Townshend
Stephanie Gallon, from the Spectral Visions group at the University of Sunderland, conducts a fascinating interview with Dr Dale Townshend, Stirling University. Dale is an expert on the Romantic Gothic and the Gothic aspects of Shakespeare and is also the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Dale Townshend, Gothic, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, Romanticism, Shakespeare
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Rowan Williams: why we need fairy tales now more than ever
Rowan Williams reviews Marina Warner’s new book, Jack Zipes’s translation of the Grimms, and Malcolm Lyons’s translation of early Arabic wonder tales, and discusses the power of the fairy tale in a fascinating essay-review.
Call for Submissions — Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales
Spectral Visions Press are calling for literary work in the mode of the Gothic fairy tale for their anthology, Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales. I may have forgotten to post this before, but there is still time to submit short … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged CFP, creative writing, Fairy tales, Gothic, poetry
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Happy New Year!
I hope you all have a Happy Undead New Year. Be carnivalesque and abandoned, even if you don’t drink . . . wine.
Ursula Le Guin: ‘Wizardry is artistry’
Not strictly Gothic, but affiliated with that genre, Ursula K Le Guin’s writing has certainly been groundbreaking in the genres of science fiction and high fantasy (including children’s/YA fiction). Her novels are thoughtfully radical and remarkably well-written (particularly for genres … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Children's literature, Fantasy, SF, Ursula Le Guin, YA Fiction
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