[Pdr] Piece from Jack Zipes

Tue Apr 3 10:26:39 UTC 2012

no i haven't.. it was a "yes to follow up" as in, "i agree to you
following up" .

On 3 April 2012 11:54, Jonathan Gray <j.gray at cantab.net> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> University of Minnesota
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>>> Cell: (612) 483-6672
>>>
>>>
>>>
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