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Rosemary
Lake
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(7/4/03 9:57 am)
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novel?
It sounds like an interesting collection, but I'm not sure what you mean by calling it a 'novel'? Are you going to tie all the plots together into one, or is it a novel about someone doing fairytale research?
R.
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harleygirl
Registered User
(7/4/03 11:16 am)
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Re: novel?
The use of the term "graphic novel" is a little confusing. I was using it more in terms of the comics industry format. In comics it generally means a work that is longer than a typical comic book, usually squarebound, that consists of sequential art. For this project, the novel part refers more to the length of the book than of the story/stories inside.
I guess to be correct it would be termed an anthology of fairy tales in graphic novel format (but that is awfully cumbersome).
I am planning on each story being a separate and accurate representation of each tale (or at least as close as I can get). I wish I could do all the versions available but that would be an incredibly expensive and expansive project.
Donna
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Rosemary
Lake
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(7/4/03 3:23 pm)
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overview, Calvino
As for an overview of what fairy tales used to be, I think Calvino's ITALIAN FOLKTALES shows a good proportion of all the different kinds. He was the Italian Grimm, working from folklore texts collected in the late 1800s. But he worked in the 1950s so he didn't Victorianize them or commercialize them; he was a serious scholar, not going for popularizations.
His notes on his #26 and #116 might be useful re your Riding Hoods. Those had cruelty and "mention of bodily needs" which C says were characteristic of children's stories! But that's pretty scarce in his collection, so the other tales must not have been 'children's stories'.
He says #24, a version of 3 little pigs, "retains" humourous and scary elements characteristic of Disney. I suppose this means the comedy was there before Disney.
Many of the other stories had coarse and cynical details by our standrds, but they were cheerful with happy endings. What I did notice was a lot of bouncy, mischievious heroines, irreverence, slapstick. No overall pattern of drooping abused damsels.
R.
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harleygirl
Registered User
(7/6/03 5:21 pm)
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Re: overview, Calvino
Thanks for all the info, Rosemary! I will have to request that from our library (hopefully they can get it). I really like your description of the heroines. That's what I like about these stories. They are funny, scary, horrible and tragic and occasionally have happy endings - all in the same story!
Do you (or anyone else) have any suggestions for stories have I left out but should include? I may still get more artists and may need some.
Thanks,
Donna
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Kim
Turner
Registered User
(7/6/03 8:22 pm)
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suggestion
Hi Harleygirl
Sounds like a great book, will be keeping my eye out for that one!
What about "The Little Matchgirl"? I don't know whether it is a fairy tale though, but seem to remember it being in one of my illustrated fairytale books as a child.
Kim
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duglis
Registered User
(7/7/03 1:10 am)
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re:
H-Girl,
Are you going to be using Tom-Tim-Tot then as the
Rumpelstilskin proto-story?
Doug
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harleygirl
Registered User
(7/8/03 3:26 pm)
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Re:suggestions
I love the Little Matchstick Girl. It's so sad. I hadn't thought of that one.
As far as the Rumple, what I think I will do is I will gather about 4 and send them to the artist and see which one strikes their fancy. I like TTT, but I also like The Rival Kempers. There are so many good ones. It's hard to choose.
Donna
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