Peter Pan kommt aus Schottland
Wusstest du, dass Peter Pan ein Schotte ist? Sein Schöpfer J. M. Barrie verwandelte eigene Kindheitserlebnisse in die berühmte Figur.
Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
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“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
– Sabrina Orah Mark on boyhood, motherhood, race, & Peter Pan
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#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature #motherhood #race
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On lost boys, fairy tales, and raising black sons in America.The Paris Review
“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook” in The Atlantic
🖼️ : Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
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#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
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As Christmas approaches, a look into the life of a classic villain from a classic holiday taleBrian Till (The Atlantic)
“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, a chain of real & fictional islands leads John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
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#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.” J.M. Barrie wrote this in his introduction to R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island, and for me it has proven to be the surprising theme of my life. As it w…Literary Hub
“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”
– Liz Michalski, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN
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#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature
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Is an adventure an adventure if there’s no one waiting at home at home to hear about it? I’ve pondered this off and on ever since rereading Peter Pan. As a child, I loved Peter, the Lost Boys, and …Literary Hub
“Barrie was a wounded creature, from his earliest youth, and his probing of that wound is what makes PETER PAN so enduringly painful to read […] The tensions are bald and excruciating.”
A 🎂 🧵 for JM Barrie (1860–1937), born #OTD, 9 May
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Anthony Lane writes about J. M. Barrie, who wrote “Peter Pan” and was portrayed as a character in “Finding Neverland.”Anthony Lane (The New Yorker)
