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Of Modern Dragons; and other essays on Genre Fiction de John Lennard

Of Modern Dragons; and other essays on Genre Fiction

Autor John Lennard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2016
A volume of essays exploring some of the best genre fiction of the last 40 years.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847600691
ISBN-10: 1847600697
Pagini: 266
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Humanities-eBooks

Notă biografică

John Lennard has taught English Literature in Cambridge and elsewhere for years, and is presently Professor of British and American Literature at UWI--Mona. His other publications include But I Digress (Clarendon, 1991), The Poetry Handbook (OUP, 1996; 2/e 2005), The Drama Handbook (with Mary Luckhurst, OUP, 2002), the Literature Insights Hamlet (HEB, 2007), and Genre Fiction Sightlines on Octavia Butler, Reginald Hill, Ian McDonald, Walter Mosley, and Tamora Pierce (all HEB, 2007). He is General Editor of the HEB Genre Fiction Sightlines and Monographs series.

Cuprins

1. Of Serial Readers: Living with Genre Fiction. 2. Of Purgatory and Yorkshire: Dorothy L. Sayers and Reginald Hill's Divine Comedy. 3. Of Pseudonyms and Sentiment: Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb, and the Imperative Mood. 4. Of Modern Dragons: Antiquity, Modernity, and the Descendants of Smaug. 6. Of Organelles: Octavia E. Butler's Strange Determination. 7. Of Stormwings and Valiant Women: The Tortallan World of Tamora Pierce

Recenzii

Wonderful stuffA" - Ian McDonald. It is - a tremendous thrill for a writer when someone really 'gets it' about what she's trying to doA" - Tamora Pierce. On nearly every page is a provocatively compressed insightA" - Steven Poole, The Guardian.