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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/18/04 2:49 pm)
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Snow Queen Interpretations
Hello all,
I am constructing a new area on SurLaLune for an annotated Snow Queen. It's not public yet--not even nearly finished--but I am looking for modern interpretations of the tale to list on the Modern Interpretations of Snow Queen. I have several already but I am looking for more. If you have more to add in addition to what I have already listed on the above page, please share here or in an email to me.
Thanks,
Heidi
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RebeccaM
Unregistered User
(12/20/04 10:34 am)
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Snow Queen poem
Adrienne Rich wrote a poem titled "The Snow Queen." I read it in The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950-1984.
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JennySchillig
Registered User
(12/23/04 11:16 am)
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Re: Snow Queen poem
Don't know if it's still in print or if it will ever be out on DVD, but there was a neat Russian animated version that was made in the late fifties and dubbed for release in America with the voices of Sandra Dee, Tommy Kirk, and Paul Frees (aka the Ghost Host!) Art Linkletter did a tacked-on preview.
It's exquisite, but unfortunately the VHS copy I have has a reddish tinge.
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(12/23/04 2:56 pm)
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Re: Snow Queen poem
I think Sandra Gilbert has other Snow Queen poems in Blood Pressure. I don't own a copy of the book, so I can't provide the titles of the poems, but I'm pretty sure there others in the sequence.
"The Tale of the Brother" in Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue is a version of the Snow Queen too.
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jess
Unregistered User
(12/23/04 10:52 pm)
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Snow Queen
I think Erzabet did some Snow Queen things a couple of years ago. You might contact her.
Jess
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dorisi
Registered User
(12/26/04 10:52 pm)
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Re: Sandra Gilbert's Snow Queen
Sandra Gilbert's wonderful Snow Queen poem is called The Last Poem About the Snow Queen.
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/26/04 11:38 pm)
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Re: Sandra Gilbert's Snow Queen
Thanks everyone. Keep them coming!
I am working slowly but surely on Snow Queen and have uploaded several illustrators into the Illustrations for Snow Queen Gallery.
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RebeccaM
Unregistered User
(12/28/04 3:38 pm)
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Sandra Gilbert poems
The other poems in the Snow Queen sequence found in _Blood Pressure_ are: "You Discover You're in Love With the Dead Prince," "You Call Him Little Kay, You Sing Him an Aubade," and "The One He Loves." It's possible I missed one, but those were the obvious ones anyway.
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Lotti
Unregistered User
(12/28/04 5:50 pm)
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Snow Queen "Illustration"
Hello Heidi,
while eagerly browsing the new pages (YEAH! THANK YOU! - sorry, needed to be said :D ), especially browsing the Illustration-sites, I remembered the following:
Two years ago I was in Kiruna, Sweden, with my friends. Now, as you people from across the Atlantic in North America may know or not know, there is an Ice Hotel in Jukkasjaervi close to Kiruna. It is built every year in December from Ice and Snow and it melts in Spring. It is quite magical anyway, being in the middle of Lappland with all the beautiful snow and the Northern lights overhead and all, and it is built with clever use of light filtering in through walls made of ice and hidden in corners of the rooms, and candles and such. They charge some admission fee if you only want to look and not sleep there, but it was worth it! -
Now, every year they make some special "suites", larger rooms with ice sculptures. You might find a "Roman" suite with reclining beds and "mosaics", all from ice and snow, or a room with a four-poster bed or even a Viking ship. The year I was thinking of, they had a SNOW QUEEN SUITE. The Snow Queen herself was carved from Ice, sitting on her throne. In front of her was little Kay playing with ice cubes, almost like childrens toy-blocks. The walls were covered with sculpted ice-crystals and Northern lights. What I really loved was that the lighting was done so that you could not clearly see the face of the Snow Queen, though it was fully carved out. My friends had to drag me from that room kicking and screaming "I WANT TO STAY! ONE MORE PICTURE!"
If you are interested, I could mail you the pictures I took, though I have to warn you that they do not do the room justice. Sadly, it was in the days before I owned a digital camera, so I would have to mail you the actual paper pics. On the other hand, the people of Ice hotel might have pictures from the suite and would have to be contacted anyway for permission to publish the pictures, I suppose, should you wish to show them under the Illustrations. It is of course a totally different medium, but standing in that suite I could not picture one more appropriate for the tale, nor a more fitting setting.
Happy holidays,
Lotti
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Kel
Unregistered User
(12/28/04 10:55 pm)
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*subject*
That sounds amazing Lotti!
Francesca Lia Block wrote a story from the Snow Queen called "Ice" in her book The Rose and the Beast: Fairytales Retold.
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(12/29/04 2:57 am)
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Re: Snow Queen Interpretations
Do you think an argument could be made for C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe being a revision of the Snow Queen? I only read it once, about twenty years ago (I never really liked the Narnia books), but there are some striking similarities...aren't there? Or is my memory playing tricks on me?
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Celestial
Registered User
(1/1/05 4:36 pm)
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Hallmark DVD
There's a Hallmark version on DVD starring Bridget Fonda as the Snow Queen.
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I didn't like this version much. It was Americanised, and Kay & Gerda were a romantic couple instead of brother and sister. The magic was lost for me. It was a bit sappy.
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TechnicalKel
Registered User
(1/5/05 6:31 pm)
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Narnia
You might be able to argue that The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is like the Snow Queen, because the Witch convinces Edmund to go to her and try to get his brother and sisters to, as well, by saying she would make him prince of Narnia. But C.S. Lewis was really writing it to be about Christ.
Edmund gives in to the Witch's temptation and agrees to betray his siblings and their friends but when he realizes how horrible she is, he wants to be back with the other children. The Witch and Aslan meet because he wants to save the boy from her, but she says she gets to kill Edmund and that he belongs to her because of what he did. Aslan arranges a deal with the Witch that she can kill him instead but doesn't tell the children. The two girls follow him though, and witness him being tortured, killed, and then returning to life.
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(1/6/05 4:13 am)
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Re: Narnia
Yes, Narnia is a Christian allegory. Understood. I was just wondering if we could also think of LW&W as a version of the Snow Queen.
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JennySchillig
Registered User
(1/6/05 11:30 am)
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Kay and Gerda
But I don't think Kay and Gerda were brother and sister in the Andersen story...they were neighbor children who were close friends. There was the hint that they'd grow into a romantic couple (they were described as being grown in the end), but they weren't siblings.
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Celestial
Registered User
(1/6/05 7:02 pm)
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more illustrated books
I have two illustrated versions ...
"The Snow Queen" translated by Naomi Lewis, illus Angela Barrett, Walker Books, London, 1988, 42 page story book.
Contains an introduction by Naomi Lewis discussing the history of the tale.
"The Snow Queen" adapted version by Naomi Lewis, illus Errol le Cain, Kestrel Books, UK, 1979.
Also published later by Viking in the US, Puffin and Penguin.
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Connie
Unregistered User
(1/14/05 9:13 am)
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snow queen illustrations
Well I'm not an illustrator per se, but I did do a Snow Queen box if you're interested. You can find pictures of it here:
www.connietoebe.com/snowqueen.html
Connie
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Lily Maid
Unregistered User
(1/15/05 3:09 pm)
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Snow Queen
Hi!
I love the Snow Queen and am delighted you're doing the story next as I'm always on the look out for new versions. It is a story that continually creeps into my own writing; the other being East of the Sun...
I can't think of as many re-tellings as I feel I should. I love the Sandra Gilbert poems.
In Firebirds ed. Sharyn November there's an excellent story by Kara Dalkey called The Lady of the Ice Garden.
I've got quite a few illustrated versions if you want details of those. Something else might come to me. look forward to reading the ones on your list that i don't know. Best wishes, Ellen
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shiara the witch
Registered User
(1/19/05 8:37 pm)
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Re: Snow Queen Interpretations
In the Firebirds fantasy collection "The Lady of the Ice Garden" by Kara Dalkey is a retelling of the Snow Queen. It stayed pretty close to the original I think, but pretty unexpected. Actually, a good many of the stories are retellings.
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(1/31/05 1:06 pm)
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Re: Snow Queen Interpretations
Thank you everyone. I have updated the page and added all of the poems and such I didn't have listed already. If you think of anything else, please feel free to pass it along.
Heidi
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Nalo
Registered User
(1/31/05 5:25 pm)
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Re: Snow Queen Interpretations
My short story "Under Glass" plays with a bunch of notions, but one of the things I did was to take Kay and Gerda (whose name I changed), and put them in a world where the wind brings storms of broken glass.
www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook2635.htm
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