The Fairy Tale Princess Questionnaire

[pameladlloyd]

Via storybookland, pallid_regina is a graduate student doing her thesis "on the persistence of the fairy tale princess as a cultural icon and how new media is changing her," and would like as many people as possible to respond to her questionnaire, which is posted in its own community, princess_thesis.

The questionnaire is quite lengthy and she needs the answers by January 19th. Even if you don't feel up to completing the questionnaire, perhaps you wouldn't mind spreading the word.

Comments

[k-10b.livejournal.com]

/we are quite capable of carrying multiple Sleeping Beauties (or Cinderellas, or Snow Whites) within us./

Ooohh... I like this idea, and you are correct. I think my favorite Sleeping Beauty is Robin McKinley's Spindle's End. S.B. is probably my favorite "princess" because she seems the most real in some ways.

BTW ... love the icon!

KB

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

:)

Yes, McKinley's characters are very well done. I love all the retellings of old stories; there are so many different interpretations and so often the characters have been fleshed out in ways that work but still surprise me.

The icon is from (the now sadly defunct) lecollage, based on art by John William Waterhouse.

Oops! No it's not! That was the UP for the main entry. The icon for that post was from the fan pages (http://www.forthewicked.net/fan.html) at No Rest for the Wicked (http://www.forthewicked.net/).

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Actually, the best link for LJ icons from No Rest for the Wicked is the Accessories (http://www.forthewicked.net/fangoods.html) page, where wallpaper and LJ icons reside. (I think Andrea Peterson rearranged a bit since I last checked the fan section of her website.)

[k-10b.livejournal.com]

great! thanks...I'll check it out.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Cool. I forgot to mention that Andrea Peterson is also norest_comic and she lets us know about updates to the comic there. :)