friending meme!

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FRIENDING MEME
Make some great new friends with the friending meme over at silkmermaids!

Welcome to my new friends thekaiserchief, touchofgr3y, profiterole, and jediknightmuse!

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.

Comments

[touchofgr3y.livejournal.com]

Hi new friend!

Huh. I thought the same thing you did for modern fantasy - who knew!

[plumxxjam.livejournal.com]

Fantasy and its subgenres make my head spin so much. I would have thought the same thing you did about modern fantasy. The one that really gets me confused a lot is "high fantasy".

[(Anonymous)]

Hiya!

Modern fantasy stories are modern just because we know the author? Hmm, interesting.

[thekaiserchief.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting definition of modern fantasy. Like you, I wouldn't have considered Hans Christian Anderson modern. :p

Oh, and hello, new friend :)

[nagasasu.livejournal.com]

BAHAHA, The Little Mermaid as modern, oh literature canon you are so funny.

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

I likey that friending meme! Although I had to alter the form a bit because seriously, music needs to be an option.

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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

Ha ha, that sounds like a university definition that nobody would use in real life. I would have said like you, something set in modern times, like urban fantasy?