Selkie Bibliography

"I am a man upon the land, I am a silkie in the sea"

 

Spike's ongoing Selkie bibliography... is of course biased... There is plenty of content not included here, as the purpose of the list is to inspire my visual arts practice.


Folklore and fairytales

• The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (Shetlands)
• The Goodman O'Wastness
• The Selkie Bride 

Folklore and fairytales: collections & studies

• People of the Sea by David Thomson (1965)
• Tales of the Seal People: Scottish Folk Tales by Duncan Williamson (1998)

Fiction: Short Stories

• The Selkie that deud no' forget by Walter Triall Dennison (1880)
• One spared to the sea by W Towrie Cutt (c.1970's)

Fiction: Novels

• Secrets of the Sea House (2013)*
• Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (2012)*
• The Selkie Spell by Tara Moss (2011)*
• Sea Change by Aimee Friedman (2009)*
• Selkie Girl by Laurie Brooks (2008)*
• Troll Mill by Katherine Langrish (2006)*
• Seven Tears into the Sea by Terri Farley (2005)*
• Selkie by Anne Cameron (1996)
• Seaward by Susan Cooper (1987)
• The Selkie Girl by Susan Cooper (1986)
• Selkie by Kenneth Liggington (1985)
• The Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry by Rosalie K. Fry
• The Selkie by E. A. Van Vogt (not entirely convinced with this one)

Fiction: story thread

• Fox mask by Juliett Marillier (2003)*

Film

• The Selkie's Lover (2013)
• Ondine (2009)*
• The Selkie (2000)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

Web resources

• Orkneyjar: the Heritage of the Orkney Islands, Selkie folk

More reading for the RP

This burst of new material was brought about listening to Norma Cameron's TED talk 'Cultivating Narrative Intelligence' which I found through a site called Storytalk.


That led me to an article and clip 'Your story telling brain'
"Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in the study of hemispheric (left vs. right brain) specialization describes "the Interpreter" - a left hemisphere function that organizes our memories into plausible stories" 
Gazzaniga, Michael. Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain 



Then to a whole host of articles via Culture Lab (New Scientist) on story telling
Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brainsMetamorphosis of the storybook by Amanda Gefter


and through one of the culture lab articles 
"E-literature may even change the way we see ourselves. Neuroscientist John Bickle explains how our brains create our sense of self through narrative (see opposite). As cognitive scientist George Lakoff puts it, "Narratives...are instantiated physically in our brains. We are not born with them, but we start growing them soon, and as we acquire the deep narratives, our synapses change and become fixed." Will new narratives lead to new selves?"
and a blog post on 'Red Riding Hood: Neurology, Narrative & Storytelling'
&
Rose, Frank. The Art of Immersion. (maybe)

The growing bibliography...

Home by Miler Lagos

Thanks to reading Virginia A. Walter's paper 'Metaphor and mantra: The function of stories in 'Number of stars'' I have come across Jerome Bruner and Robert Coles. 'Acts of meaning', 'Actual minds, possible worlds' and 'The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination' the titles of their books that I hope when I get to them will shed some light on stories, imagination and cognition.

And more papers from today's research are:

• Why fairy tales matter: The performative and the transformative / Maria Tatar. Western folklore 69:1 (Winter 2010) 55-64
• Learning about ourselves through fairy tales: Their psychological value / Meredith B. Mitchell. Psychological perspectives, 53: 264-279, 2010.
• Declolonizing fairy tales / Donald Hasse 

I read a few more that weren't after all that relevant or informative, and realise that I have got to a point that I have read enough to begin to find where my own opinions stand, I feel another map / diagram coming on!

Through one paper 'The Magic of Fairy Tales: Psychodynamic and Developmental Perspectives' by Martin J. Lubetskyi (which for me was too focused on child psychology to be pertinent) I found a reference to Julius Ernest Heusher (1918-) who wrote 'A psychiatric study of myths and fairy tales; their origin, meaning and usefulness' (1974) and 'Psychology, folklore, creativity and the human dilemma' (2003) I'm hoping they won't be too much like Bruno Bettleheim's 'The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales  (1976). Bettleheim for my literary palate proves everything far too neatly. Every fairy tale gets psychoanalysed for usefulness within an inch of it's life! The enchantment fades as reason and usefulness is hammered into every word, in every story.

Resources for research on Anne Dybka

http://www.cspgifts.com/dybka.html
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2715b.htm
http://www.bluecatheaven.com.au/Mos%20art/CrowGirlGallery/valeannedybka.html
http://www.nga.gov.au/Material/Index.htm
http://www.nga.gov.au/Material/ArtistBio/dybka.htm
http://www.nga.gov.au/Material/details/dybka.htm
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=66414&search=bowl&images=&c=&s=
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=88206&search=Anne+Dybka&images=&c=&s=
Hirst (2005). "2005 Ausglass Honorary Lifetime Membership Award: Anne Dybka--A Celebration of Anne's Achievements.". Journal (Glass Art Society) (0278-9426), p. 16.

Library research B

This is very useful information that would be much better served at the start of the Foundation year not 3/4 of the way through.

Library research, week 7

An online course designed to teach us how to use the library efficiently and discernment in information sources.

I did learn something. Nay, I do not sneer at the library. I am a qualified library technician, so a lot of what we were being shown I was more than familiar with, however there is always something out there that you don't know... and it's always fun to see the light bulb moment in other people when they realise that the library is indeed a useful tool.