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Tag Archives: critical studies
Justin Hall, ed., No Straight Lines
It’s tempting to say that comics underwent a radical transformation in the 1960s and ’70s. They didn’t. What did happen was that comics as a medium, with the rise of underground comics through the agency of R. Crumb and his … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, critical studies, gay and lesbian lit, history
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Audrey Isabel Taylor‘s Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building
We’ve reviewed damn near every book that Patricia A. Mckillip has published over the many decades she’s been writing. Indeed the editing team is updating the special edition we did on her so that it can be republished this Autumn, as … Continue reading
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Tagged critical studies, nonfiction
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Gary Westfahl’s Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction
Hugo Gernsback occupies a unique role in the history of science fiction, but exactly what that role is at present has generated a fair amount of controversy. He has been depicted as the visionary creator of a new genre of … Continue reading
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Tagged critical studies, nonfiction
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Alex Vernon’s On Tarzan
Tarzan is one of those icons of popular culture that has taken on a resonance that runs from the personal to the mythic. One of the ironies that underlies Alex Vernon’s On Tarzan is that old question that I confront … Continue reading
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Tagged critical studies, folklore, nonfiction
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Joseph Bristow, ed.: Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
From the vantage of a century later, it’s hard for us to understand the last years of Oscar Wilde’s life and those immediately after his death. His disgrace after his conviction for committing acts of “gross indecency” with another man … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, critical studies
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