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THREAD: Re-reading Marina Warner’s (@marina_warn) From the Beast to the Blonde, in preparation of welcoming her to @UofGlasgow and @UofGFantasy soon for @OnceFantasies! Her emphasis on transformation in fairy tales really foregrounds the affordances of fantasy:
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For Warner, metamorphosis/shape-shifting/change, defines the fairy-tale. The wonders of the fairy-tale “disrupt the apprehensible world in order to open spaces for dreaming alternatives” - a lot of common ground with many definitions of fantasy/the fantastic here.
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I like Warner’s double reading of the verb “to wonder” (cf. wonder tale/märchen): both to marvel and also to enquire, to seek to know. Together they highlight to key elements of the fairy tale (and fantasy, I’d say!): “pleasure in the fantastic, curiosity about the real”.
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