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Category Archives: Generation Dead: YA Fiction and the Gothic news
Adaptation Again! Neverland and Wonderland
Literature is a fluctuating web of reinvention, translation, and reworking, of plots and genres. Classic literary fictions can be adapted as well as myths and folklore; here’s a review of five YA variations on Peter Pan and the Alice books, … Continue reading
Fairy Tale Adaptation by Disney
An interesting little snippet here about Disney’s recent spate of fairy tale adaptations–the Grimms’ ‘Rose Red and Snow White being the latest, but with an intertextual twist that aligns it with the better-known ‘Snow White’. The writer also describes some … Continue reading
Holly Black interview
Holly Black, for me, is one of the very best writers of YA paranormal romance. She is the author of the powerful vampire dystopia novel The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (which is on the Generation Dead module), of the Curse … Continue reading
Re-imagining Fairy Tales
A favourite OGOM topic (well, for me anyway!) is the transformation of classic fairy tales into (mostly YA) paranormal romances and allied genres. Here, the bare motifs of the fairy tale are invigorated by giving novelistic flesh to the characters … Continue reading
Generation Dead: The Shiver Workshop
This post is a little late (mainly due to the distractions of moving house and trying to teach myself basic plumbing skills alongside managing a PhD and moonlighting as a tour guide at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre) so apologies for my … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Generation Dead: YA Fiction and the Gothic news
Tagged Animals, ecoGothic, gender, Generation Dead, Genre, Gothic, J.K. Rowling, lycanthropes, lycanthropy, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal romance, sexuality, Shiver, the animal, the Other, werewolf, Werewolves, Wolves, YA Gothic
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Intertextuality and YA Fairytale Adaptations
As you probably know, I am fascinated by intertextuality and the transformation of genres, particularly the way that recent YA fiction has taken classic narratives and reimagined them as contemporary paranormal romance or other YA genres. The chart here is … Continue reading
YA Fiction 2016
This may be of interest to those researching YA fiction. It’s a list of recommendations by the US Young Adult Library Services Association. It includes both retellings and transformations of fairytales, and dystopian novels–genres that are very much in the … Continue reading
7 YAs Based on Myths and Tales From Around the World
YA transformations of fairy tale again; this is a type of writing which fascinates me at the moment. A review here by Melissa Albert on seven such novels, metamorphosing myths and folktales from the Thousand and One Nights; Norse myth; … Continue reading
Fairy Tale Review
I’ve recently been following this journal, Fairy Tale Review, on Twitter; it looks a valuable source for all those interested in fairy tale and in fiction or poetry derived from that genre. I’ve added a permanent link on the Blogroll … Continue reading
Grimms’ Tales and Women
This is a very interesting article by Maddie Crum, ‘Unhappily Ever After: How Women Became Seen not Heard in Our Favourite Fairy Tales‘, on how the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers silence women’s voices and experience. I think it … Continue reading