Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:47:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Mother Goose’s British Afterlife http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/29/mother-gooses-british-afterlife/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/29/mother-gooses-british-afterlife/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 17:34:37 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1119 Read about MOTHER GOOSE’S FRENCH BIRTH (1697) AND BRITISH AFTERLIFE (1729)here

]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/29/mother-gooses-british-afterlife/feed/ 0 The Centre’s latest newsletter http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/17/the-centres-latest-newsletter/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/17/the-centres-latest-newsletter/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:42 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1114 The Centre’s latest newsletter is available here

]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/17/the-centres-latest-newsletter/feed/ 0 Issue 3 of Gramarye out now http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/17/issue-3-of-gramarye-out-now/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/17/issue-3-of-gramarye-out-now/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:02 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1111 Continue reading →]]> Issue 3 of Gramarye is now available to buy here

This issue’s contents include:

  • ‘Hans Christian Andersen: It’s Me The Story’s About’, Neil Philip

  • ‘The Well of D’yerree-in-Dowan’, Patrick Ryan

  • ‘Dragons of East and West’, Rosalind Kerven

  • ‘Death and a Pickled Onion’, Jakob Löfgren

  • ‘My Favourite Story When I was Young’, William Gray

  • A review of Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood’s The Fabled Coast, Jacqueline Simpson

  • A review of Peter Davies’ The Fairies Return, Or, New Tales for Old, Andrew Teverson

  • A review of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales for Young and Old, Francisco Vaz da Silva

  • A review of Angela Carter and Decadence, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

  • A review of Colin Manlove’s The Order of Harry Potter: Literary Skill in the Hogwarts Epic, Jane Carroll

Not to mention illustrations by Paul Kidby, Edmund Dulac, Edward Burne-Jones, Yvonne Gilbert, Constance Barnes and many more

]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/05/17/issue-3-of-gramarye-out-now/feed/ 0 STEAMPUNK TALK CANCELLED http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/02/26/steampunk-talk-cancelled/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/02/26/steampunk-talk-cancelled/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:06:26 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1100 The talk on ‘Steampunk’ by Frauke Matz on Tuesday 5 March has had to be cancelled due to illness. We wish Frauke a speedy recovery.

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]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/02/09/februarymarch-2013-newsletter-now-available/feed/ 0 Storytelling, storywriting, storyprinting: Telling tales and the origins of children’s books http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/01/26/storytelling-storywriting-storyprinting-telling-tales-and-the-origins-of-childrens-books/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/01/26/storytelling-storywriting-storyprinting-telling-tales-and-the-origins-of-childrens-books/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:37:19 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1081 Continue reading →]]> Storytelling, storywriting, storyprinting: Telling tales and the origins of children’s books

  • Monday 11 March 2013 5.15 – 7 pm in the Mitre Lecture Theatre, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester

  • Ruth Bottigheimer and Matthew Grenby, Professors at New York and Newcastle respectively, will share the platform at the first ever joint event to be co-hosted by the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (SCFFF) and the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group (SCERRG).

]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2013/01/26/storytelling-storywriting-storyprinting-telling-tales-and-the-origins-of-childrens-books/feed/ 0 New Grimms’ article by Jack Zipes available here http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/21/new-article-on-the-grimms-by-jack-zipes/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/21/new-article-on-the-grimms-by-jack-zipes/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:09:02 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1051 Continue reading →]]> A Christmas bonus for this Grimm Year! Please find attached here an article by Professor Jack Zipes entitled “The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm”, published in The Public Domain Review. We are very fortunate to have his fascinating piece, partly as the result of “insider dealing”! Jack Zipes is of course on the Sussex Centre Advisory Board, and one of the editors of The Public Domain Review is Jonathan Gray, Project Advisor and Technical Coordinator of the Sussex Centre. Enjoy this early present!

]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/21/new-article-on-the-grimms-by-jack-zipes/feed/ 0 Issue 2 of Gramarye out now http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/17/issue-2-of-gramarye-out-now/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/17/issue-2-of-gramarye-out-now/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:57:53 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1034 Continue reading →]]> Issue 2 of Gramarye is now available to buy here. This issue is a special illustrated edition featuring work by Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Mel Grant, Arthur Rackham, Adelaide Claxton, Margaret Jones, Edmund Dulac and many more. This issue’s contents are as follows:

• ‘To tell or not to tell: are fairy tales suitable for children?’, Nicholas Tucker and Jacqueline Simpson continue their BBC Radio 4 debate;

• ‘A review of Brian Froud’s work’, Anne Anderson, curator of Froud/Lee exhibit ‘The Truth About Faeries’;

• An interview with Brian Froud and a preview of his latest work, Trolls;

• ‘Gwyn ap Nudd: Transfigurations of a Character on the way from Medieval Literature to Neo-Pagan Beliefs’, Angelika H. Rüdiger;

• ‘Count Stoneheart and the First Christmas Tree’, a retelling of a traditional tale by best-selling fantasy author Kate Forsyth;

• ‘My Favourite Story when I was young’, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère;

• ‘Herne’, Steve O’Brien;

• A review of Alan Cunningham’s Traditional Tales (ed Killick), Sophia Kingshill;

• A review of Jan Susina’s The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature, Colin Manlove;

• A review of Giselle Liza Anatol’s Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on the Pop Culture Phenomenon, Malini Roy;

• A review of Stephen Asma’s On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, Miles Leeson.

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]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/17/issue-2-of-gramarye-out-now/feed/ 0 ‘Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: A Fairy-Tale Symposium http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/17/old-new-borrowed-and-blue-a-fairy-tale-symposium/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/17/old-new-borrowed-and-blue-a-fairy-tale-symposium/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:33:20 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1030 Continue reading →]]> ON TUESDAY 26 March, Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and founding father of the academic discipline of Fairy Tale studies, will give a lecture at the University of Chichester. He’ll be preceded by talks by children’s literature expert Nick Tucker and by Jacqueline Simpson, Visiting Professor of Folklore at the University of Chichester. This fairy tale symposium will run as follows

3 p.m. Jacqueline Simpson: ‘Terry Pratchett: Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men’

4.15 p.m. Nicholas Tucker: ‘Grimm Parents’

6 p.m. Jack Zipes: ‘Once Upon a Time: Changing the World through Storytelling’.

Tuesday 26 March Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, College Lane, Chichester PO19 6PE More details to follow; if you have any queries please contact Heather Robbins at h.robbins@chi.ac.uk

]]> http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/12/17/old-new-borrowed-and-blue-a-fairy-tale-symposium/feed/ 0 Marina Warner talk in Lausanne http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/11/22/marina-warner-talk-in-lausanne/ http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2012/11/22/marina-warner-talk-in-lausanne/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:57:32 +0000 bgray http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/?p=1026 Prof Marina Warner of Essex University is giving a talk in Lausanne entitled “Magicking reality in contemporary fiction in English”. For details see here

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