tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post5493939171665173792..comments2024-03-27T06:42:26.250-07:00Comments on Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: ON FAIRYTALESKatherine Langrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-15165300695033697602012-10-07T21:12:28.527-07:002012-10-07T21:12:28.527-07:00I shared this post with my Fairy Tales and Literat...I shared this post with my Fairy Tales and Literature class at Boston University. As always, thank you for your wonderful words, TerriTheodora Gosshttp://theodoragoss.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-61142474931455381442012-10-01T22:22:31.700-07:002012-10-01T22:22:31.700-07:00Thanks for this post! I too have always loved fair...Thanks for this post! I too have always loved fairy stories, but find that I still keep it secret from the workplace world. Most people I know don't read fantasy and don't understand why I would; it makes me suspect in their eyes.<br /><br />But we need these kinds of tales, and I've noticed they're growing in popularity. I've also noticed we're moving back to the original rough form more suited to adults. I wonder what that says about our society?<br /><br />Maggiehttp://www.mockingbirdsatmidight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-38974186676926430822012-09-21T16:08:08.043-07:002012-09-21T16:08:08.043-07:00What a wonderful post! Terri, I have read your ant...What a wonderful post! Terri, I have read your anthologies and loved them. They told me that I, too, could play in the world of fairy tale(call them folk tales and as an adult you have permission to read them;-D) in my own writing and I have. If the Blue Fairy Book was Andrew Lang's, that librarian had clearly not read it! I do agree about Tolkien's influence and loved his essay "On Fairy Stories".<br /><br />I'm familiar with the darker versions of fairy tales you mention; the feisty Cinderella appears in the Grimm story "Ashputtel", also in the English version "Tattercoats". she has recently had an airing in Aussie author Sophie Masson's "Moonlight and Ashes", as has the darker Rapunzel in a novel by another Australian writer, Kate Forsyth. People know. Disney did some classics, despite the bowdlerisation,, but they are fading into the background.Sue Bursztynskihttp://suebursztynski.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com