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Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Anthony Browne
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From: Susan Stan <susan.stan>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:30:56 -0400
I'm not sure I knew about Browne's Hansel and Gretel until the Points of View conference, when he included some of those images in his talk. Then I went to the exhibition at the Chicago Institute and saw the book. When thinking about a presentation topic for IBBY in Cartagena, I decided to focus on two editions of Hansel and Gretel, Browne's and Ian Wallace's. Both set the books in the present time while adhering faithfully to the Grimms's text (or maybe adding a word or two, in Wallace's case). My thesis is that in these books the illustrator has taken the place of the storyteller of old, who used to modify the story to suit the audience. When the tales were collected and put into print, they became static, and the role of storyteller now falls to the illustrator. I had to get the book through InterLibrary Loan but have since found one from a rare book dealer online.
Susan
-Susan Stan Assistant Professor of English Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 susan.stan at cmich.edu http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/Susan_Stan 517w4109; (h) 517w2?87
Received on Wed 14 Jun 2000 01:30:56 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:30:56 -0400
I'm not sure I knew about Browne's Hansel and Gretel until the Points of View conference, when he included some of those images in his talk. Then I went to the exhibition at the Chicago Institute and saw the book. When thinking about a presentation topic for IBBY in Cartagena, I decided to focus on two editions of Hansel and Gretel, Browne's and Ian Wallace's. Both set the books in the present time while adhering faithfully to the Grimms's text (or maybe adding a word or two, in Wallace's case). My thesis is that in these books the illustrator has taken the place of the storyteller of old, who used to modify the story to suit the audience. When the tales were collected and put into print, they became static, and the role of storyteller now falls to the illustrator. I had to get the book through InterLibrary Loan but have since found one from a rare book dealer online.
Susan
-Susan Stan Assistant Professor of English Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 susan.stan at cmich.edu http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/Susan_Stan 517w4109; (h) 517w2?87
Received on Wed 14 Jun 2000 01:30:56 PM CDT
