So, yeah, I’m incredibly thankful to have learned that style through my work in television. I think knowing your structure is a very valuable skill that gets downgraded in today’s culture. I got my start working six years on The Mentalist, a case of the week, catch a killer procedural. I’ve spent a lot of time working with mysteries. The part I’m really grateful for, though, is that television is highly structured. That’s not to say that it’s not exhausting, because it is exhausting. JH: The most obvious difference is that television is for the most part collaborative. How do you jump from TV writing rooms to working on your crime novels? EC: Speaking of movies, you split your time between scripts and fiction.
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But now the mother of computing might finally have the chance to realise her own potential. In the “mirabilia”, Arthur’s son’s name is Amr, while in another medieval text, the Welsh Triads, his name is Lachau or Lacheu. Both became central ideas in The Grey King. There are two main Arthurian references in the “mirabilia”: Arthur’s dog, Cafall, and Arthur’s son. The “mirabilia,” a list of “wonders” of Britain appended to the main text of the Historia, give us a sense of the traditions of Arthur in medieval Welsh folklore. One of the texts I consider central for Cooper’s re-imagining of Arthur is the Latin Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) of c. Susan Cooper’s The Grey King (and, later, Silver on the Tree), offers us a vision of “the Arthur of the Welsh”. In this post, I’d like to share some examples of Welsh legend and folklore that inspired central elements in both novels. Among my chosen texts are two much-loved Tir na n-Og Award winners: Susan Cooper’s The Grey King (1976) and Jenny Nimmo’s The Snow Spider (1987). In my recent book, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) I explored children’s and young adult fantasies ranging from the 1960s to today, discussing their inspirations in “Celtic” myth, both Irish and Welsh. |