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The Hollins Critic is a journal of literary criticism published five times a year through Hollins University in Roanoke. Founded in 1964 by Louis Rubin Jr., the journal was intended to promote new writers of fiction and poetry through an experimental form the editors described as “literary journalism.” When the journal debuted, they announced their plan to deliver in each issue a critical essay on “a new book by an important younger writer [that] will be considered at some length, not only in its own right but in its relationship to the writer’s other publications.” The
Critic later chose to publish issues featuring established writers who had added new noteworthy volumes to their works. Not all of the journal’s subjects have been American writers.
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By Alexandra Kleeman
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By Helen Oyeyemi
The fairy tale has seen its share of modern reinterpretations, from gender-bent and feminist retellings to postmodern experiments by writers like Angela Carter and Robert Coover, who tested the limits of familiar narratives, twisting their hidden joints and hinges into infinite variations on the theme. And if these authors pushed the form to its recombinatory, orgiastic extremes, it could also be argued that they mapped its terrain entirely. What more was there to do with the fairy tale now that it had been dismantled, rebuilt, inverted and put through a blender?
Helen Oyeyemi, the award-winning British-Nigerian author of six previous novels, a pair of plays and a story collection, has made her reputation answering this question in new and unusual ways. In her hands, the realm of lore and the so-called âreal worldâ exert a gravitational pull on each other, resulting in unexpected amalgamations of Bluebeard and Yoruban folk ta
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, by Edward Carey.
The story of Pinocchio is something that has taken several shapes in my life. The first of course was the Disney story, known to most Americans by now. The second involved the discovery of Carlo Collodi’s
The Adventures of Pinocchio, a life-changing event the original novel which would seem to have served as the loosest possible inspiration for Disney’s Pinocchio. The relationship between the Disney and the Collodi was like the mask and the face.
Now we have, in a sense, the mirror, too:
The Swallowed Man, by the writer and artist Edward Carey, imagines Geppetto, inside the impossible five story cave that is belly of the massive dog-fish shark that swallowed him, awaiting what seems to him to be death, and writing, at last, the stories he has not told before now of his life as the creator of the wooden puppet who transformed into a human boy. Illuminated by Carey’s exquisitely textured original illustrations, the passages take on the
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