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Chanel
Unregistered User
(3/13/04 5:55 pm)
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Popular Authors and fairy tales
I have a question for you, well actually a comment too. Anne Rice, the popular author of "The Interview of the Vampire", wrote a trilogy of erotic stories about sleeping beauty. Which I could not continue to read for its adult and too graphic scenes of rape. But my question is how true is her represent ion of those stories to the actually first edition of sleeping beauty? And another question i have is how many popular and past/current authors have taken a fairy tale and produce it to full length fiction novel?
i appreciate it if you can answer these questions.
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midori
snyder
Registered User
(3/14/04 6:47 am)
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Re: Popular Authors and fairy tales
I worte an article on the history of Sleeping Beauty that you might of interest. It has been reproduced on the Endicott Studio For Mythic Arts website.
www.endicott-studio.com/forsleep.html
The early versions of this tale are quite different than the later and more familiar versions which have a Beauty as a mostly, passive sleeping girl. As for the erotic versions ( was it really Anne Rice? For some reason I had Joyce Carol Oates in mind--but maybe she did one too?) they are pretty invented--I suspect they have more in common with Victorian sexual sensibilities and themes of repression and control than a traditional rites of passage folktale.
There is rape in the early versions--and its startling--but there is also an ogre mother, twin babies and in the early versions, burial alive and resurrection.
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(3/14/04 9:44 am)
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Re: Popular Authors and fairy tales
Here's a reading list of contemporary novels (and story collections)
based on fairy tales. There may be a few missing here, but it's
a good place to start if you're interested in novel-length fairy
tale fiction. www.endicott-studio.com/list-fairyTale.html.
The Surlalune web site which hosts this discussion board is also a good source of fairy tale fiction recommendations.
As for the Ann Rice books based on Sleeping Beauty, I found them virtually unreadable.
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aj
Unregistered User
(4/1/04 12:49 pm)
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sleeping beauty varients
www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html
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Colleen
Unregistered User
(4/2/04 1:25 pm)
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Reading List
Thank you so much for this! Somehow, I'd overlooked it. I've just printed it out and plan on keeping in my bag at all times so I'll always have books to look up at the library or bookstore. Providing I get to a library any time before I get through with paralegal school, that is. <g>
Colleen (glad I have plenty of novels at home)
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Gregor9
Registered User
(4/7/04 7:14 am)
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Re: Reading List
An early "rape" version of Snow White appears in Basile's
Pentameron. She is awakened not with a kiss but by one
of the babes she's born (while still unconscious!) suckling on her
fingertip and in so doing drawing the ensorcelled splinter out of
her finger.
There seems to be a great deal of "noblesse oblige" in the act--that the princess's body is simply the property of the lord who finds her, to be used as he chooses. Kind of hard to stomach.
I've a student in my writing class at Swarthmore College right now who's working on a retelling of this that subverts the rape by making it the unconscionable act of violation that it should be seen as. I'm hoping she gets it published...
GF
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ChrisCalabrese
Registered User
(4/7/04 10:01 am)
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Dogville
Lars Von Trier uses fairy tale styled narration for Dogville which downward spirals into the rape of Grace (Nicole Kidman) as if he's borrowing from this type of reference.
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