[Pdr] Piece from Jack Zipes

Tue Apr 3 09:54:43 UTC 2012

Woah cool. Did you also email Rodney Engen, or shall I do it?

J.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Adam Green <mradamrgreen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> brilliant!!!
>
> and yes to follow up with marina warner and rodney egnan
>
> i emailed this robert irwin guy regarding arabian nights illustrations
> but i have heard nothing back...
>
> On 5 February 2012 14:50, Jonathan Gray <j.gray at cantab.net> wrote:
>> Jack Zipes has offered to write something on the omitted tales from
>> the 1812 edition of the Brothers Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmaerchen (see
>> below). This year is the 200th anniversary of this first edition. As
>> one of the world's leading Grimm experts, Jack is in very high demand,
>> so this is a really big deal!
>>
>> I'll follow up with him in April/May. On my list!
>>
>> After I hear from him, I'll write to Marina Warner about something
>> else in this area.
>>
>> Also I was thinking of writing to Rodney Engen, the curator of a big
>> exhibition about fairy tale illustrations at Dulwich Picture Gallery
>> [1], to write about public domain illustrations of a particular tales,
>> visual interpretation of tales, his favourite illustrations, or
>> something else.
>>
>> What do yous think?
>>
>> J.
>>
>> [1] http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/the_age_of_enchantment.aspx
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Dear Jonathan,
>>
>> Thanks for your letter and your kind words about my work. I am writing
>> to you from Boston, where I spoke at a Harvard conference on the
>> legacy of the Brothers Grimm, and I am a bit exhausted and preparing
>> for my return trip to Minneapolis. So, if I am somewhat incoherent,
>> you'll understand.
>> I have glanced at some of the articles in The Public Domain Review,
>> and they are highly unusual, and I am very much in favor of your
>> project.I should also like to contribute something, but as you have
>> surmised, I am ridiculously busy at the moment, especially since this
>> is the commemorative year celebrating 200th anniversary of the first
>> edition of the Brothers Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmaerchen, and I shall
>> be speaking at various conferences. That being said, I might be able
>> to provide you with a short piece along with some translations that
>> deal with the omitted fairy tales from the 1812 edition. It is not
>> commonly known that, after the Grimms published the first edition of
>> 1812/1815, they eliminated over 20 of the tales from the first edition
>> when they published the second edition of 1819. And these tales were
>> never reprinted, although some made their way into the notes. I am
>> preparing an edition of omitted tales for an Italian publisher in
>> Rome, and after selecting the tales, I shall write a small
>> introduction, which the publisher will translate into Italian. The
>> entire edition, of course, will be in Italian. So, once I write the
>> introduction in April or May, I could send it to you along with a few
>> of the omitted tales in English and with commentary on the
>> significance of the omissions or the changes that the Grimms made with
>> some of the tales in the 1819 edition. The Grimms were "translators"
>> and "adapters" of the tales they collected either through oral or
>> print transmission.
>>
>> So, if you are interested, I can re-contact you in April/May and show
>> you a draft of a possible article.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Gray <j.gray at cantab.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Professor Zipes,
>>>
>>> Its Bill Gray's son, Jonathan. I greatly admire your work, and look
>>> forward to working with the bibliographies that you kindly donated to
>>> the Sussex Centre a little while back.
>>>
>>> I'm writing to ask whether you might be interested in contributing
>>> something to a publication called The Public Domain Review, of which I
>>> am co-founder and co-editor. The Review is a free web-based journal
>>> that "aspires to become a bounteous gateway into this whopping
>>> plenitude that is the public domain". Like a free TLS, LRB, or NYRB
>>> for material which has public domain and is freely available online.
>>>
>>> As well as having a critical and curatorial function, the Review aims
>>> to help promote the idea that a cultural commons is something which
>>> should be valued: "We believe the public domain is an invaluable and
>>> indispensable good, which – like our natural environment and our
>>> physical heritage – deserves to be explicitly recognised, protected
>>> and appreciated".
>>>
>>> You can find it here: http://publicdomainreview.org/
>>>
>>> The Review is just entering its second year. We have many wonderful
>>> articles, including one last week from Julian Barnes on an unusual
>>> meeting between Maupassant and Swinburne:
>>>
>>> http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/01/24/an-unlikely-lunch-when-maupassant-met-swinburne/
>>>
>>> For a while my Co-editor and I have been fantasising about inviting
>>> you to write a short piece on an interesting or curious collection of
>>> fairy tales, an obscure or unusual tale that you like, or any other
>>> work that has passed into the public domain. For example, we noticed
>>> that you highlight the "Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems" collection
>>> in a selected bibliography of primary sources, which sounds very
>>> interesting. Also you mention the Richard Burton translation of the
>>> Pentamerone, which is a wonderful book, which not everyone will know
>>> much about.
>>>
>>> What do you think? We realise you must be very busy, but thought it
>>> was nevertheless worth asking!
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your time.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Gray
>>> http://jonathangray.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jack Zipes
>> Professor Emeritus
>> University of Minnesota
>> Home address: 3245 Irving Ave. S.
>> Minneapolis, MN 55408
>> Phone: (612) 825-9060
>> Cell: (612) 483-6672
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>> http://jonathangray.org
>>
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