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Ktales
Registered User
(1/6/04 12:20 pm)
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Byatt Article
I've been absent from the board for months and months but lurking, and just wanted to drop on and thank the person who posted the MoMA event!
Thought I'd go ahead post the link to a lovely article by A. S. Byatt from the Guardian (an advance, abridged version of her introduction to Tatar's next Norton anthology). It ran this past weekend, and I don't see the link up here yet.
books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1115048,00.html
Terri, I've been trying to get in touch with you--via CRS--do drop a note if you can! There are a couple of projects I want to let you know about. (Kate here--they made me sign up with a new user name because I've been quiet so long.)
Cheers to all.
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AlisonPegg
Registered User
(1/6/04 12:51 pm)
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Re: Byatt Article
What an excellent article! Thanks for the link. I'm particularly interested in what she says about that flatness you get in early tales. I was very aware of the flatness in Italo Calvino's Collection of Folk Tales and we had a bit of a discussion in the summer about whether it was intrinsic to the tales themselves or was to do with Calvino's particular filter of them. I'm sure Calvino had motives. Anyway I'm just thinking and digesting aloud!! There's plenty of food for thought in that article.
Alison
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Ktales
Registered User
(1/6/04 3:05 pm)
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Flatness
It is an excellent article, isn't it? I agree that the discussion of flatness is very interesting--esp because Luthi has long been a favorite of mine and I feel he is under-discussed. His books are excellent on the abstraction in fairy tales if you're interested! I missed the Calvino discussion and will look back for it. Thanks for mentioning it.
K.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(1/7/04 7:32 am)
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Re: Pratchett
Byatt really has a thing for Terry Pratchett. This is the second major article in which she sings his praises, coming in from left field to do so. Hmmmmm.
Jane
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Niniane
Sunyata
Registered User
(1/15/04 12:35 am)
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Re: Byatt Article
Great article, looks like I'll have to get the anthology at some point. Thanks for posting that! The only Pratchett I've read thusfar is "Witches Abroad" which did some very funny things with Cinderella and Baba Yaga. Thoroughly enjoyed that one though I haven't tried any of the other Discworld books.
Anita Harris.
Terra Mythogene
www.mythopoetica.com
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