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Author | : Harlan Ellison |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1497604354 |
A collection of twenty thought-provoking essays from “one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth” (Publishers Weekly). Harlan Ellison—master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent—has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays—nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing—that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award from PEN International for his journalistic forays.
Author | : Harlan Ellison |
Publisher | : Career Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 9780878772704 |
Author | : Harlan Ellison |
Publisher | : eReads.com |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 0759204195 |
Master essayist, gadfly, literary myth-figure and viewer of dark portent, Harlan Ellison has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of Complacency. His two books of TV criticism, The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat, are taught in more than 200 universities and colleges. In this, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and unreprinted works twenty wide-ranging essays that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award of P.E.N. International for his journalistic frays in 1982.
Author | : Maura Heaphy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2008-11-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1598845063 |
For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.
Author | : David Langford |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1587153300 |
This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.
Author | : Ellen Weil |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Science fiction, American |
ISBN | : 9780814208922 |
Author | : George Edgar Slusser |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820314556 |
The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction. The focus of the book is not entirely on critical restraints but also on the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive--its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. The essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy writing as assess the genre's revolutionary qualities: its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices.
Author | : Gary Westfahl |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476637563 |
Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays focus primarily on American science fiction, the traditions of Russian and Chinese science fiction are also examined. A comprehensive bibliography of works related to science fiction and economics will assist other readers and critics who are interested in this subject.
Author | : Michael Burgess |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0809515059 |
A bibliography of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, and publisher Robert Reginald, with an introduction by William F. Nolan and an Afterword by Jack Dann.
Author | : Whitley Strieber |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2023-07-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 7770047064 |
Michael McCarty interviews masters of the fantastic, including: Harlan Ellison, Whitley Strieber, Laurell K. Hamilton, Harry Turtledove, Boris Vallejo, Joe R. Lansdale, Max Collins, Charles Grant, The Amazing Kreskin, Richard Matheson, and many more