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Tag Archives: Children’s literature
Resources: Fairies, fairy tales, YA and children’s literature, preternature
We’ve added some useful links to various resources from the website. These appear in the Related Links and Journals sections on the right-hand side of the Blog and Resources pages. The International Fairy-Tale Filmography is a fantastic database of film … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Aarne-Thompson-Uther, adaptation, Children's literature, fairies, Fairy tales, Film, journals, YA literature
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CFPs: Myth and dream, horror, Dracula and vampires, youth horror
A few CFPs for conferences and calls for articles: 1. Myth and Dream / The Dreaming of Myth, 23-24 May 2019, University of Bologna. Deadline: 28 February 2019. The conference invites proposals addressing diverse approaches to the combination of myth … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Bram Stoker, Children's literature, Dracula, dream, Film, Folklore, global Gothic, horror, myth, TV, Vampires, YA Fiction, YA Gothic
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CFPs: 19C vampires, radical YA lit, revisiting the Gothic
An edited collection and two conferences seeking contributions: 1. Call for articles for A Feast of Blood: the Vampire in the Nineteenth Century. Deadline: 31 January 2019. We invite essay proposals on the vampire figure in the long nineteenth century. Our edited collection … Continue reading
YA Gothic Fiction: CFP (edited collection) and NYALitFest (event)
Research into Young Adult Gothic fiction forms a core part of the OGOM Project, and feeds into the associated teaching that Dr Sam George has been conducting for some years now at the University of Hertfordshire (see here). So these … Continue reading
CFPs: Angela Carter, Lewis Carroll and George MacDonald, Contemporary Gothic
Some more calls for papers and articles here: Ludics & Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play ‘Salman Rushdie famously called Carter a “one-off.” In this international collection of essays, we will consider that ludics and laughter contribute to … Continue reading
Forthcoming SFF Adaptations for Film and TV
Natalie Zutter, at the always useful Tor blog, has been looking at forthcoming adaptations of SF and fantasy books for film and TV. Some of these are very intriguing; I’m particularly interested in the coming to screen of Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Children's literature, comics, Fantasy, Film, graphic novels, SF, TV, YA Fiction
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CFP: Investigating Identities in Young Adult (YA) Narratives, 13 December 2017, The University of Northampton
This symposium on Investigating Identities in Young Adult (YA) Narratives offers opportunities for researchers in YA Gothic and fantastic genres, which is a core part of OGOM’s own research. OGOM’s Dr Sam George will be delivering a plenary on identity … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Children's literature, education studies, Film, identity, popular culture, TV, YA Fiction, YA Gothic
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Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books
The University of Florida have digitised the 6,000 children’s books of their Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature and made them available on line for free. This is a marvellous resource and I have added it to the Related Links list … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, Eighteenth century, Genre, illustration, Nineteenth century, YA Fiction
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Struwwelpeter — Original Illustrations
An interesting essay by Sarah Lascow on the cautionary tales of Heinrich Hoffman, including, most notably, ‘Struwwelpeter’: ‘The 19th-Century Book of Horrors That Scared German Kids Into Behaving‘. The tales influenced WH Auden and inspired Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged cautionary tales, Children's literature, illustration, Struwwelpeter, Tim Burton
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Reworking Myth and Fairytale in YA Literature–Again!
If you visit this site often, you’ll know that many of the Gothic and fantastic narratives that OGOM research involve reworkings and rewritings of fairy tales or myths. The transformations and interminglings of genre involved fascinate me on a formal … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Lists, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Children's literature, fairy tale, Greek myth, Intertextuality, myth, Norse myth, poetry, YA Fiction
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