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| Author | : Robert Sampson |
| Publisher | : Popular Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780879722180 |
The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment. This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source.
| Author | : Robert Sampson |
| Publisher | : Popular Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
The era of pulp magazine extended from about 1896 to about 1957. The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intensive, colors vivid, pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment. Sixty years of fiction-making created immense numbers of characters. Most glimmered briefly and vanished. After them crowded others, equally ephemeral. Certain characters rose above their casual origins. Various factors brought them intense popularity. This book, and its companion volumes, are concerned with the slow boiling and shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume will begin with dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source. Later volumes will be concerned with the 'teens and 'twenties, examining characters that have played distinctive parts in the history of pulp fiction.
| Author | : Algis Budrys |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2013-05-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1291436049 |
Consists of book reviews and essays written for The magazine of fantasy and science fiction.
| Author | : Cynthia J. Miller |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2013-10-18 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0810892650 |
The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror film. In this new volume, Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming, Miller and Van Riper expand their examination of undead Westerns to include not only film, but literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture (fan fiction, blogging, fan editing, and zombie walks). These essays run the gamut from comics and graphic novels such as American Vampire, Preacher, and Priest, and games like Darkwatch and Red Dead Redemption, to novels and short stories by celebrated writers including Robert E. Howard, Joe R. Lansdale, and Stephen King. Featuring a foreword by renowned science fiction author William F. Nolan (Logan’s Run) and an afterword by acclaimed game designer Paul O’Connor (Darkwatch), this collection will appeal to scholars of literature, gaming, and popular culture, as well as to fans of this unique hybrid.
| Author | : Robert Sampson |
| Publisher | : Popular Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1987-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780879723637 |
More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.
| Author | : William F. Deeck |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2008-08-01 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : 0941028119 |
A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.
| Author | : R. Reginald |
| Publisher | : Detroit : Gale Research |
| Total Pages | : 1536 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
| Author | : Ingo Berensmeyer |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9401209642 |
Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the story of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.
| Author | : Kate Macdonald |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2024-08-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1040248152 |
The Edwardian period was a time of great social and political change. The six texts in this edition are all notable for their imaginative portrayals of the future. This is the only critical edition of these works. Essays and introductory matter explore the themes in the novels, as well as the literary-historical context they appeared in.
| Author | : Steven Philip Jones |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476615217 |
The author of more than 50 books--125 million copies in print--Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the sea-loving protagonist of 22 of Cussler's novels, remains among the most popular and influential adventure series heroes of the past half-century. This first critical review of Cussler's work features an overview of Pitt and the supporting characters and other heroes, an examination of Cussler's themes and influences, a review of his most important adventures, such as Raise the Titanic! and Iceberg, and a look at adaptations of his work in other media. Cussler joins the pantheon of such as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming, and this overdue volume demonstrates that beneath Cussler's immense popularity lies a literary depth that well merits scholarly attention.
