Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator, and Aesthete
Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator, and AestheteAudrey DoussotRÉSUMÉLaurence Housman’s work in the fields of fairy literature, illustration and book design was one of the most...
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TOUT POUR AMOUR
Kirakira Precure à la ModeEpisode 15 - My Own ReviewTOUT POUR AMOURYes, that's the Akira-centric episode I mentioned last week, that has sent my heart throbbing ever since I watched it. Being an only...
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forget-me-notsby esutoniaSummary"Yuuri had to admit, his curiosity was piqued. He had heard stories of the Snow Queenbefore, but had never thought that she was real. Then again, he thought, if those...
View ArticleHA MAJD A NYARUNKNAK VÉGE...
HA MAJD A NYARUNKNAK VÉGE...Ha majd a nyarunknak vége,Csendesen szitál a hó,Lennék még tenéked édes,Lennék még tenéked jó.Csendes kis legénylakásban,Az óra búcsúra int,Kívülről hangos az utca,Hangos az...
View ArticleTHE SNOW QUEEN AS A REBIRTH PLOT
RebirthMale Hero redeemed by Heroine Such is one version of the plot of Rebirth. We may come across familiar stories which present the theme of Rebirth in another way. We still see the heroine as the...
View ArticleTHE TEMPTER IN TRAGEDY
In surveying the earlier plots we ended by looking briefly at the 'dark' versions of each type of story: examples where the underlying patterns fails to work out to its proper, happy conclusion. In the...
View ArticleSTILL, I SAY IT LIKE WOMBAT.
There are some pronunciations I take for granted, like /leftenant/ and /kernel/ and /Wooster/ and /Fanshaw/... or /nome/, or /Right/(the surname, as in Richard /Right/ or the /Right/ brothers)......but...
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THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT: YUKARI VS. GIULIO
Kirakira Pretty Cure à la Mode...Episode 16: My Own ReviewTHE QUEEN'S GAMBIT: YUKARI VS. GIULIOor,QUEEN'S GAMBIT TO BLACK KING; CHECKMATEAKIRA (feeling awkward): Why a hakama?(Notice Giulio raising an...
View ArticleDISCIPULUS REDIVIVUS - MMXVII
a student of youthful appeareance, but mature judgement,When the young man saw this, he ran to his teacher and said: [···]The teacher, upon entering the room, saw [···] and said to the student: "I...
View ArticleFREEDOM - A HEARTWARMING POEM
A decade ago, my mum found this anonymous poem on a handwritten scrap of paper in the street and was so smitten with it that she decided to share it with her only daughter. Needless to say I still keep...
View ArticleSTRUGGLING UPHILL
Struggling uphill to do a lot of things aside from cramming for next Wednesday's exam (I think of cramming Monday through Friday this week and half the next, and taking the weekends off).Struggling to...
View ArticleTSQ-IV: FEARFUL SYMMETRY
This retelling is a fragment from the Snow Queen version retold in the Myths and Legends Podcast episode 21, Fearful Symmetry. (As an aside, I've linked both Savitri and the Princess in the Fourth...
View ArticleWITH THE PETALS ON AND ALL
This is a little queer 2010s retelling of Othello I have written for that Shakespeare FutureLearn MOOC. Most characters are gender-flipped (except the Desdemona and Cassio characters, as you shall see)...
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WESTEROS: TASTE THE BIFAUXNEN RAINBOW
WESTEROS: TASTE THE BIFAUXNEN RAINBOWMost anime series only have one resident bifauxnen, whether her name be Haruka Tenoh, Falsetto, Akira Kenjo, Seira Azuma, Anna Hart, Benio Amakusa, or whatever.The...
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CUARTA HISTORIA: PRÍNCIPE Y PRINCESA (TRAD. INDIRECTA)
« »In the nineteenth century, children's literature in general reached Spain translated from the French. Which led to some kind of telephone game due to the use of an intermediate language... This is...
View ArticlePRECURE EDITION: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN
I was up for some Yukakira Precure crossover filk right now... something like the All Stars films. And a Yorktown filk set in this crossover 'verse with my favourite Cures in the leading cast... So I...
View ArticleEL OJO DE ARGÓN - FRAGMENTO INICIAL
So I decided to do a little translation of The Eye of Argon (remember? The worst fantasy story ever?) with as many misspellings and convoluted words as the original... EL OJO DE ARGÓN - Capítulo...
View ArticleTHE GENERAL'S NEW CLOTHES I: ATALLAH
TranslationThe first translations of Shakespeare's plays were undertaken ata time when a nascent theatrical movement was taking place in theIslamic world. Thus the early renderings of the dramatic...
View ArticleMUKASHIBANASHI 10: PEACH TARO
MUKASHIBANASHI 10: PEACH TARO (MOMOTARO)Now when was the last time I posted a mukashibanashi? This one features an unlikely hero on a mission, a rock or island full of ogres, a trio of Eastern zodiac...
View ArticleSögur herlæknisins
So I found The Surgeon's Stories by Topelius done into Icelandic (from the late nineteenth century); and these can be downloaded from this link for free without any...
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