{"id":235,"date":"2013-03-25T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T06:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/ecyclopedia\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-12-24T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:13:04","slug":"fairy-tales-kevin-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gantercourses.net\/ecyclopedia\/2013\/03\/25\/fairy-tales-kevin-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Tales – Kevin Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFairy Tales<\/a>\u201d is an interactive fiction<\/strong> piece of Children\u2019s Literature<\/strong> designed by Kevin Brooks<\/a> and influenced by the classic fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.\u00a0 Brooks provides the framework of the story; however, it is a combinatorial<\/strong> piece in that there are many possibilities of what will happen depending on the choices the reader of the work makes.\u00a0 For example, the characters names, some of the characters involved, the type of qualities the characters have and the type of ending are all chosen by the reader and so the reader can be viewed as co-creator.\u00a0 The co-creator can also add their own epilogue to the story if they choose and share the stories with others through email.\u00a0 The combination of having a choice by using the predetermined options and being able to write part of the story make every story generated unique. \u00a0This new media piece has a classic fairy tale story line. The daughter of a poor peasant goes on an adventure when threatened by an evil King.\u00a0 Along the way she comes across mystical characters that either help or deter her, depending on the co-creator.<\/p>\n

Brooks has based the fairy tale fittingly using one of the most influential story makers in the Western world.\u00a0 The stories of Hans Christian Anderson have been \u201cre-produced\u201d many times \u201cwith themes from old works forming the basis for new ones\u201d (Goldsmith). \u00a0This re-producing has taken the ideas from the original works in many different directions; one can just compare all the different versions of \u201cThe Little Mermaid.\u201d\u00a0 However, Brooks creates \u201cFairy Tales\u201d differently than others who have borrowed from the same works. \u00a0Firstly, Brooks has not borrowed from one story; he has framed this story around the elements classic fairy tales have.\u00a0 These elements include the struggle between good and evil, quest, meeting friends or foes, magic, animals and love. In addition to the conventional elements, \u201cFairy Tales\u201d exemplifies a piece of electronic literature where \u201cthe medium lends itself to experimental practice especially to those that disrupt traditional notions\u201d (Hayles 17).\u00a0 Brooks has created a story that can appeal to youth today through its interactivity and having multiple options for the user to decide the mood of the story.\u00a0 The story does not need to have the typical romanticized ending, in fact Brooks says, \u201cI like to write about the darker side of things, and I\u2019m not known for my happy endings\u201d (Brooks).\u00a0 The user can choose the type of ending the story can have (almost happy, some happiness, very sad or just plain sad).\u00a0 \u00a0The user can even choose to write their own epilogue to the story and have the print recorded and saved through an email message.\u00a0 This way the user can change their mind, go back and try a new option to see what paths the story may take them.\u00a0 Brooks has created a single place where the work can be re-purposed multiple times.\u00a0 Unlike previous fairy tales, one can now have a say in the type of story they want to read when they want as through the internet \u201cnow readers around the world can access the work\u201d (Perloff).<\/p>\n

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Born in 1959, throughout his life Kevin Brooks<\/a> has had many occupations, but he is known here as an author.\u00a0 Apart from \u201cFairy Tales,\u201d he has written several other works his first published works was \u201cMartyn Pig\u201d in 2002.\u00a0 He has since written, \u201ciBoy\u201d, a novel about a boy who turns into an \u201cApp\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 As an author his work is usually geared toward youth.\u00a0 He has won awards for his works including, the North East Book Award 2004 and the\u00a0Branford Boase Award\u00a02003. \u00a0He currently lives in North Yorkshire, UK.<\/p>\n

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Works Cited:<\/p>\n

Brooks, Kevin.\u00a0Kevin Brooks Author<\/i>. My Space, n.d. Web. Web. 22 Mar. 2013.<\/p>\n

<http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kevinbrooksauthor>.<\/p>\n

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Goldsmith Kenneth, \u201cIt\u2019s Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It\u2019s \u2018Repurposing\u2019<\/a>\u201d The<\/p>\n

Chronicle Review. Sept 11, 2011. http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/UncreativeWriting\/128908\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hayles, N. Katherine. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary<\/span>. Notre Dame:<\/p>\n

UND Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

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Perloff, Margorie. “Screening the Page\/ Paging the Screen:Digital Poetics and the<\/p>\n

Differential Text”.\u00a0 From: New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and<\/i><\/p>\n

Theories<\/i>, ed. Adelaide Morris and Thomas SwissI (Cambridge and London:<\/p>\n

MIYT Press (2006): 143-64.<\/p>\n

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