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Fourth Street
Jun. 21st, 2013 11:46 amSomewhat belatedly, this is my Fourth Street programming schedule:
ETA: Both of these panels are on Saturday.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM The Heroine's Journey, Revisited
Elizabeth Bear (Moderating), Dana Baird, Lois McMaster Bujold, Pamela Dean, Fade Manley, Lynne Thomas
What sorts of differences tend to crop up between heroic narratives based on the protagonist's gender? What sorts of consequences, in terms of tropes invoked and shifts in reader responses, tend to follow when we gender-swap characters, or put women into traditionally "male" roles (e.g. Nyx in Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha) and vice-versa?
AND
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Fantasy of Discovery
Ellen Klage (Moderating), Pamela Dean, Tappan King,Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede
Some fantasies (e.g. Pamela Dean's work, and Patricia C. Wrede's Thirteenth Child trilogy) focus less on traditional forms of conflict than on solving mysteries or uncovering how some part of the world works. What are this form's unique challenges and strengths, and why is it less common than more traditionally conflict-focused forms of fantasy? Obviously mystery plays a part in such works, but are genre mysteries really fantasies of discovery in the same sense as The Dubious Hills and other works in that vein?
David and I aren't listed as attending because there was some kind of glitch in the registration process that I failed to notice, so we'll have to register at the door. But we'll be there.
Pamela
ETA: Both of these panels are on Saturday.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM The Heroine's Journey, Revisited
Elizabeth Bear (Moderating), Dana Baird, Lois McMaster Bujold, Pamela Dean, Fade Manley, Lynne Thomas
What sorts of differences tend to crop up between heroic narratives based on the protagonist's gender? What sorts of consequences, in terms of tropes invoked and shifts in reader responses, tend to follow when we gender-swap characters, or put women into traditionally "male" roles (e.g. Nyx in Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha) and vice-versa?
AND
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Fantasy of Discovery
Ellen Klage (Moderating), Pamela Dean, Tappan King,Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede
Some fantasies (e.g. Pamela Dean's work, and Patricia C. Wrede's Thirteenth Child trilogy) focus less on traditional forms of conflict than on solving mysteries or uncovering how some part of the world works. What are this form's unique challenges and strengths, and why is it less common than more traditionally conflict-focused forms of fantasy? Obviously mystery plays a part in such works, but are genre mysteries really fantasies of discovery in the same sense as The Dubious Hills and other works in that vein?
David and I aren't listed as attending because there was some kind of glitch in the registration process that I failed to notice, so we'll have to register at the door. But we'll be there.
Pamela
