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Finding Poetry in Pamela Dean's Tam Lin


Finding Poetry in Pamela Dean's Tam Lin - Reactor

Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean, is one of those books that defies description in the best way, because it both is and is not a fantasy. For most of the book, it's the ...

Fairy Tales and Poetry: Pamela Dean's Tam Lin - Reactor

Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean, is one of those books that defies description in the best way, because it both is and is not a fantasy. For most of the ...

We are the Product of the Books we Read as Children and Young ...

... Finding Poetry in Pamela Dean's Tam Lin. We are the product of the books we read as children and young adults. They shape the vocabulary we ...

Book Review: Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

In Pamela Dean's novel Tam Lin, the ballad's general theme and storyline has been brought to a college campus in the 1970s. Janet starts her ...

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with the old Scottish ballad, “Tam Lin.” In this poem, a human woman named Janet meets a ...

Fairy Tales and Poetry: Pamela Dean's Tam Lin : r/Fantasy - Reddit

"When I first read Dean's Tam Lin, I didn't like it much. Based on the back-of-the-book blurb and the others of Dean's novels that I'd read, I ...

Guest Review: Tam Lin by Pamela Dean - The Shaggy Shepherd

In the ancient Scottish ballad “Tam Lin,” headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh and then must battle the Queen of Faery.

The Annotated Tam Lin - Medusa's Library

One of my favorite books is Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. Not only is this book based on a ballad I really like, but it's also an amazing fantasy ...

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean | Goodreads

In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh and then must battle the Queen of Faery.

Tam Lin, Pamela Dean - Reading the End

This is a retelling of the ballad “Tam Lin” set in a college where everyone has read all the same books everyone else has (lucky them), and they ...

Pamela Dean's Tam Lin–Again! | Frisbee: A Book Journal

Pamela Dean's novel Tam Lin, set at a small college in Minnesota in the '70s, is a whimsical chronicle of an undergraduate education.

Interview with Pamela Dean (TAM LIN) - Fantasy-Hive

Pamela Dean was kind enough to speak with the Fantasy Hive via email. Your novel Tam Lin is a retelling of the Child Ballad of the same name. Would you be able ...

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean - bookforager - WordPress.com

Reading Tam Lin is like reading two parallel stories – one a straightforward tale of college life, the other a much stranger and more ...

The End of August, Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, and Phyllis McGinley's ...

I was rereading Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, a splendid retelling of the “Tam Lin” ballad. It is set at Blackstock College in Minnesota (based on ...

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean - Asking the Wrong Questions

Tam Lin is an older student named Thomas Lane. The queen of fairies is the brilliant and remote Professor Medeous, head of the Classics ...

Review: Tam Lin by Pamela Dean - Late Nights with Good Books

The synopsis for the novel is quite explicit in its references to the ballad. Terri Windling, a well-known and respected fairy-tale scholar, ...

Tam Lin (novel) - Wikipedia

Tam Lin is a 1991 contemporary fantasy novel by United States author Pamela Dean, who based it on the traditional Scottish border ballad "Tam Lin".

What Laura's Reading Lately: Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

So earlier this week, I read this post by Seanan McGuire and picked up Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. (They knew what they were doing when they ...

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean; Introduction by Windling Terri

Set against the backdrop of the early 1970s, imbued with wit, poetry, romance, and magic, Tam Lin has become a cult classic—and once you begin reading, you'll ...

Review: Tam Lin by Pamela Dean - The Eyrie

Tam Lin is, predictably, a retelling of the 16th century Scottish ballad by the same name. But before that becomes clear, it's a story about ...