I am exhausted. Today was my CAS Presentation of my thesis, “Girls Who Save the World: The Female Hero in Young Adult Fantasy.” It was both a presentation and a competition. There were six student presenters from across pretty much every arts/humanities discipline combination there is. The presentations were really, really good. I didn’t win [...]
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Only one more day of classes…
posted by erin on May 3, 2007
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2007/only-one-more-day-of-classes
I’ve been reading!
Last Wednesday I read Robin McKinley’s Beauty, and then Thursday to Friday I read Rose Daughter. Both are her adaptations of the original eighteenth century fairy tale, written twenty years apart. They’re tremendously different from one another and really not comparable because of that. But the 1978 version, Beauty, adds a layer of richness to [...]
posted by erin on February 25, 2007
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2007/ive-been-reading
The ceaseless beauty of The Hero and the Crown
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley This book astounds me. I’ve read it four, five times now—probably more considering my thesis—and I keep coming back to it and I’m just amazed. It’s not so much the story itself (though there is that) but so much of why I love it is in how it’s told. [...]
posted by erin on February 21, 2007
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2007/the-ceaseless-beauty-of-the-hero-and-the-crown
