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Tag Archives: adaptation
Retelling Fairy Tales: Little Red is Armed by the NRA
Here are some more recent fairy tale adaptations, for younger readers this time–thanks, once again, to the excellent Barnes & Noble blog (there is one for teen books and one for children). Fairy tales, of course, are never innocent; their … Continue reading
Shakespearian YA
Continuing the theme of adaptation of classic plots, here are five reworkings of Shakespeare as YA fiction. A couple of them are cast in the genre of paranormal romance, but they all look worth reading.
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
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
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
CFA – ‘The Comic Work of Neil Gaiman: In Darkness, In Light, and In Shadow’
The following CFA has been released: ‘Call for submissions to an edited collection requested by publisher Since his seminal writing on The Sandman (1989-present) and long since before and after on works such as Batman, Miracleman, The Books of Magic, … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged adaptation, Fairy tales, Film, Folklore, Gothic novel, Gothic television, Nail Gaiman, religion, television
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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
More Angela Carter from ‘The Gothic Imagination’ blog
Following on from the first blog post on Angela Carter and scopophilia on The Gothic Imagination blog, here is the next post, ‘The Eye of Profane Pleasures: Fairy Tales, Pornography and the Male Gaze in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” and “The … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, Angela Carter, Fairy tales, Gothic, Gothic literature, The Gothic Imagination
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