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Tag Archives: animality
YA Gothic at ‘Investigating Identities’ (2): Identity, Agency, Assimilation and Paranormal Romance
Following on from Sam’s post on her keynote talk for the Investigating Identities in Young Adult YA Narratives symposium at the University of Northampton on 16 December, I thought I should post a synopsis of the paper I’ll be presenting … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged agency, animality, Genre, Gothic, identity, Paranormal romance, sympathetic monster, YA Fiction
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Redeeming Beauties and Beasts, Wolves and Humans
Kaja and Sam have made me feel guilty, so I’ll just give an account of what I’ll be talking about at the Being Human: Redeeming the Wolf event. I’ll be following up some of the themes that Sam and Kaja have … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged animality, Beauty and the Beast, fairy tale, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal romance, Red Riding Hood, Werewolves, Wolves
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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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Review: Beauty and the Beast, dir. by Bill Condon (Disney, 2017)
Sam and I have been posting on the theme of ‘Beauty and the Beast recently here and here (I am doing research on the tale and will be presenting a paper at the Damsels in Redress conference next month). I … Continue reading
Beauty and the Beast: more thoughts
Further to Sam’s post below, I’m writing a paper on YA adaptations of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for the Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings at Queen’s University, Belfast (7-8 April), so the tale is very much on … Continue reading
Fairy Tale Hybridity: What Kind of Animal is Beast in ‘Beauty and the Beast’?
‘Beauty and the Beast’ belongs to the Animal Groom cycle of fairy tales alongside ‘The Frog King’ and ‘Cupid and Psyche’. I have always been intrigued by what kind of animal Beast is in this tale. In his twenty first-century … Continue reading
CFP: Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic, Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 November 2017
Another conference! Ecogothic is an emerging trend in ways of looking at Gothic, horror, and fantastic narratives. People who attended OGOM’s 2015 Company of Wolves conference, with its probing of the interrelationship of culture and nature, human and animal, might … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged animality, ecocriticism, ecoGothic, ecohorror, Gothic, nature
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Another set of Top Ten Shapeshifters (Part 1)
It’s taken me a while to respond to Kaja and Sam’s excellent lists of their top ten shapeshifters (here and here). Here are the first five of my own favourites (not in order of importance). 1. Circe, in Homer, Odyssey … Continue reading
Disney’s Walpurgisnacht
Witches and magical transformations are themes that OGOM will be pursuing over the next year or so. Disney’s wonderful adaptation of Walpurgisnacht in Fantasia (1941) makes full use of the potential of cinematic technology to depict the transformative powers of … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Film Clips
Tagged animality, Disney, Film, Walpurgisnacht, witches
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‘How to Recognise a Werewolf in the Nineteenth Century’ by Will Pooley
This well researched post, ‘How to Recognise a Werewolf in the Nineteenth Century’, on the Beastly Histories blog is a very interesting read. (Actually the whole of the blog is pretty exciting so get ready to lose a few hours … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, animality, Animals, Nineteenth century, translation, Werewolves
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