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Tag Archives: Fairy tales
More Beauty and the Beast
More useful links on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (see previous posts by Sam and I). First, a short piece by Constance Grady on some of the many various adaptations of the tales, covering Robin McKinley’s Beauty and Rose Daughter, Angela … Continue reading
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
Angela Carter — Resources
Still commemorating Angela Carter, twenty-five years after her death, here are some more useful links: Here’s a great article by John Dugdale on Carter’s legacy, including her influence in music: ‘Angela’s influence: what we owe to Carter‘ (though some connections … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Angela Carter, Beauty and the Beast, dystopia, Fairy tales, Feminism, Intertextuality, journalism, music
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Nikolei Polevoi, Russian Fairy Tales
Here’s a beautiful digitisation of Nikolei Polevoi’s Russian Fairy Tales in a 19o5 translation by R. Nisbet Bain, with sumptuous illustrations by Noel L. Nisbet.
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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Decadent fairy tales
Here’s a review of a fascinating-looking new collection of fairy tales by French decadent writers around the fin de siècle. The editors say Nearly a century before postmodern fairytales by Margaret Atwood, AS Byatt, Angela Carter and others upend fairytale … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, aestheticism, Angela Carter, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, decadence, Fairy tales
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Grimms’ Tales — Illustrations
A fabulous collection here of illustrations to Grimms’ fairy tales by the likes of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, David Hockney, and others.
Angela Carter Online
I make no apologies for posting yet again on Angela Carter; she is, I think, one of the most important and most accomplished writers in English of the twentieth century. She escapes genre, but is imbricated with all the genres … Continue reading