[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fairy tales versus Fantasy and the continuum of categories
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:38:52 -0800
good quetin abot how to classify myths; they aren't really fantasy; I
guess just Fiction; and maybe that's all you need to with the fairy Tales
categorize the book as children's fiction; and when you write a review of
the book you can say it's fairy tales; or ... what is said on the fly leaf
or back cover of the book. I always include those, so maybe that's enough
explanation.Or did you want to find a category in case someone is looking
for fairy tales?
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Judy, I’d class fairy and folk tales as a division of fantasy because
> fantasy can spring from fairy or folk tales and mythology. Now we get into
> something interesting because is mythology fantasy? A lot of times when one
> says “myth” nowadays one means something which is false or misleading, but
> if one is using the term in its original sense, then a myth is an
> explanation of origins, i.e., the creation of the world, hence mythology
> are stories relating to the origins of beliefs and cultures. So is
> mythology part of religion? See how one gets a continuum where one bleeds
> into another. I know we have a list member who bemoans science fiction
> being lumped with fantasy, and I really do see his point. Though I
> certainly understand it, and I’d like to see fantasy having its own
> category, I’m reminded of those authors who write both science fiction and
> fantasy. Then we have that little type of fiction which some classify as
> slipstream. We have stories which take tropes from alternate universes,
> engineering, and fantasy, or an amalgamation of science fiction and
> fantasy. Then we have magical realism to muck up the whole megillah. ‘What
> is a categorizer to do? Regards, Kim Friedman.
>
>
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> Any thoughts about how to classify a book as to type if it is a child's
> fairy tale? It's obviously a children's book, and it's literature and
> fiction, but would you consider a fairy tale, like Little Red Riding Hood,
> a fantasy novel as well?
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