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Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine: More Than Fairy Tale Princesses, By Brita Long, Fairy Tale Book Reviewer
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Krampusnacht 2 Submission Info. July 13, 2015. More Than Fairy Tale Princesses, By Brita Long, Fairy Tale Book Reviewer. If you spend enough time with me, then you’ll quickly realize how much I LOVE all things Disney and all things princessy. That said, as a feminist, I seek out books featuring princesses more along the lines of Anna from. Today’s column features three completely different princesses, each in her own original fairy tale. In Mette Ivie Harrison’s. The Princess and the Hound. Is the first ...
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the middle page: "Honour to the Lincoln Green!": Robin Hood in the Poems of John Keats and John Hamilton Reynolds
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Fumbling thoughts on faerie, fantasy, and folk tales. Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Honour to the Lincoln Green! Robin Hood in the Poems of John Keats and John Hamilton Reynolds. Is hosting another reading event! This time, it's on the legend of Robin Hood. Their last. One on C.S. Lewis produced some great book reviews and analysis (my own contribution can be found here. The Once and Future King,. Both feature a Robin Hood character. As a Romantic poet, Keats is often studied with poets like Wordsworth and Sh...
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the middle page: August 2013
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Fumbling thoughts on faerie, fantasy, and folk tales. Sunday, August 25, 2013. Just wanted to share the news that an article of mine will be appearing in the latest issue of Silver Leaves. Silver Leaves is a Tolkien studies journal that has featured scholarly and creative work on topics ranging from the Inklings, Dragons, and Fantasy art/artists. In the past, scholars like Tom Shippey. Michael C. Drout. And Peter S. Beagle. And its original manuscript. Fellow Mythgardian and Potterhead Kris Swank.
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the middle page: Making Sense of the Frame Narrative in 'The Princess Bride'
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Fumbling thoughts on faerie, fantasy, and folk tales. Saturday, April 13, 2013. Making Sense of the Frame Narrative in 'The Princess Bride'. Ah, The Princess Bride. Is there anyone who doesn't love this film? The novel begins with William Goldman writing as "himself" (which is in reality a fictionalized, albeit close, version of himself). In it, he talks about his father reading him The Princess Bride. Dose of bitter reality. Since The Princess Bride. On one hand, this opening seems to be a very consciou...
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the middle page: September 2013
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Fumbling thoughts on faerie, fantasy, and folk tales. Sunday, September 15, 2013. The Creation Stories of Narnia and Middle Earth. It probably won't come as a surprise to you that Tolkien's creation story for Middle Earth, "A. Inulindale," and C.S. Lewis' novel about the beginning of Narnia,. Resemble each other. Like many creation myths, both Narnia and Middle-earth start out in a sort of 'nothingness' and both tales explain how the material and spiritual world come into being. More about Middle Earth's...
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the middle page: Alchemical Framework and Imagery in Beauty and the Beast
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Fumbling thoughts on faerie, fantasy, and folk tales. Sunday, February 24, 2013. Alchemical Framework and Imagery in Beauty and the Beast. I just finished reading and watching a few different versions of the Beauty and the Beast. Tale and could not help but see some alchemical imagery and meaning in the tales. Once again, John Granger. Is the person to turn to for a full discussion on what literary alchemy is and how it applies to popular texts like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,. In an alchemical story...
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SurLaLune Fairy Tales: The Annotated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Similar Tales Across Cultures. Best of the Web. Read Snow White Themed Posts on the SurLaLune Blog. Kay Vandergrift's Snow White. Snow, Glass, Apples: the story of Snow White by Terri Windling. Snow White Stories collected by D. L. Ashliman. I often receive e-mails asking me to name the seven dwarfs. The seven dwarfs are only named in the Disney film of the story, not in the traditional tales I provide on this site. However, if you want the name of Disney's seven dwarfs, they are:. Little Snow White;.
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the middle page: Literary Alchemy in 'Hunger Games' Part 2: Peeta and President Snow in the first Mockingjay Teaser
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Fumbling thoughts on faerie, fantasy, and folk tales. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Literary Alchemy in 'Hunger Games' Part 2: Peeta and President Snow in the first Mockingjay Teaser. This is the second part in a series exploring the literary alchemy of the Hunger Games. You can read a brief outline of the alchemical imagery of the trilogy in Part One, right here. President Snow's chilling address to Panem in the first teaser trailer for Mockingjay Part One. Throughout The Hunger Games. Moments almost always ...
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Wolf Moons and Muddypond Green: Dynamic Cats' howls - alias 'Katzenjammer', Norway and a few faeires .........
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A slightly whimsical blog of the magickal, pagan and faery kind . Friday, 5 August 2011. Dynamic Cats' howls - alias 'Katzenjammer', Norway and a few faeires . May I introduce you to these fine ladies. If you haven't met them already that is? From the beautiful land of Norway - they are 'Katzenjammer' - Anne Marit, Solveig, Turid and Marianne. They can perform! Not only that - they swap instruments tune by tune and belt out jazz, folk rock and the odd ballad too! So very wild are Katzenjammer. Thinking a...
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Wolf Moons and Muddypond Green: Snail Jelly? Never will it darken our enchanted doors! ....
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A slightly whimsical blog of the magickal, pagan and faery kind . Friday, 3 May 2013. Never will it darken our enchanted doors! Illustration 'The Wee Sick Goblin' by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. At dusk, on the May Day, a Goblin was brought into our midst. He's. A terrible colour and can barely stand because his knees will tremble. He seems very mal-nourished and we think he's suffered some sort poisoning from a surfeit of tree-fungus, or possibly bluebell stalks. Jelly of Earth Worms. Will they never learn?
