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I don't know why but I am EXHAUSTED today. On the desk until 7pm and it's relatively busy so far so it's keeping me awake. Murk got the science fair project question, thank goodness! I've had a few RA questions.
A Children's Lit student just asked me what "Modern Fantasy" was and I thought it just meant new fantasy books set in modern times but then she said her teacher used "The Little Mermaid" as an example and I don't really think of Hans Christian Anderson as "modern" anything. Of course, I had to Google it and I found this information on the University of Wisconsin website which pretty much says "modern fantasy" just means fantasy stories that we know the actual author of. So I think the books I ended up giving her were okay...though she did take a King Arthur story, do we know who wrote that? probably not.
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Date: 2014-02-26 11:41 pm (UTC)Huh. I thought the same thing you did for modern fantasy - who knew!
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Date: 2014-02-27 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-27 01:56 am (UTC)...that makes so much sense; I can't believe I didn't think of that before, haha. XD
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Date: 2014-02-27 12:41 am (UTC)Modern fantasy stories are modern just because we know the author? Hmm, interesting.
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Date: 2014-02-27 12:42 am (UTC)Oh, and hello, new friend :)
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Date: 2014-02-27 01:10 am (UTC)and hello back! :D
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Date: 2014-02-27 03:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-27 05:52 am (UTC)That's a bizarre definition of "modern fantasy." Literature gets confusing when professors and booksellers can't agree on what to call something. I think you (and most people) would use the bookseller definition. I guess if you're thinking of "modern" in the way we use it for, say, "modern English," then that makes sense.
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Date: 2014-03-01 06:30 pm (UTC)Modern = Inconceivable! (you keep using that word...)
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Date: 2014-03-02 01:26 am (UTC)ETA: Oh. But now that I've said that, I have an idea for another blog post. Hm.
I think the deal is "modern" =/= "contemporary," which is how we're using it. Maybe... I'm reaching here--it still sounds weird to me.
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Date: 2014-03-03 03:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-03 03:38 am (UTC)But no--definitely need more than a month. (February's too short, what with everything that goes on then--V-Day, Black History Month, Women In Horror Month, and this year the Beatles First US Visit 50th Anniversary.)
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