Showing posts with label Literary Criticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary Criticism. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 March 2014

Still Remembering Steve

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It's been 5 years now. I wish he could be here to give his thoughts on new Howard and Tolkien developments, the Hobbit films, the 1,000...
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Thursday, 12 July 2012

Bite-Sized Blog: Prometheus, Frost-Giants and Indo-Europeans

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"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" may be only 9 pages long, but it's one of Howard's biggest stories, tying in an awfu...
Saturday, 29 October 2011

Back again, Mr Herron?

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Hee hee, this is fun . Meanwhile, over in the World of Robert E. Howard Studies (or at least one encampment where skin-clad knuckle-dragge...
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

"It's your scholarship, Bobbie! Something's got to be done about your scholarship!"

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With The Evolutionary Heroes of Robert E. Howard still on the horizon and more and more academically-minded folks recognizing Howard's ...
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Sunday, 10 July 2011

The division between the literary story and the action one

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I think I understand why Otto Penzler went with "The Devil in Iron" when composing The Big Book of Adventure Stories : because it...
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Saturday, 2 April 2011

The Literary Omnivore is a wonderful, wonderful human being

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You know how me and others are always ranting about the arbitrary silliness of "literary fiction" and "genre fiction"?  ...
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Saturday, 19 February 2011

"Jim was most ruined for an automaton..."

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Sheer, unmitigated, unadulterated, unpossible brilliance .
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010

The Philip Palmer Challenge

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I like to imagine he's contemplating how his company is going to take over the Crown. In his recent post , Philip Palmer gives the very...
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Thursday, 21 October 2010

Well, we all knew this would happen.

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As for love of Truth, it never occurred to me to doubt that you were motivated by a desire to establish truth. I supposed it was a fact that...
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Monday, 4 October 2010

Guy's Lit Wire on Howard

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A while back, Will Ludwigsen wrote a very good review of The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian on Guy's Lit Wire.  His fellow blogger Alex...
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Feminism and the Women in Robert E. Howard's Fictional Worlds

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A while back, I talked about Howard's feminism - or more specifically, a particular letter Howard wrote to Harold Preece.  This was ins...
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Thursday, 8 July 2010

Turn off your Mind, folks: Gary Lachman's Way Ahead of You

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This was a bombshell from Mikey C (of Necronomania ): You are going to love this one , comrades-in-arms. All the standard DeCampisms, p...
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Saturday, 3 July 2010

Just in case you think I'm being overly negative...

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I came across a really cool blog, by one J.P. Walter .  He's an English teacher who thinks Howard is a worthwhile subject for literary s...
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Saturday, 20 March 2010

The Internet Movie Database, Where Intelligent Discussion Dare Not Tread

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I've seen some hilarious battles over at the IMDB. Idiots presuming to know about something because they saw a film, read a few reviews...
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Saturday, 30 May 2009

A Scholar for the Ages

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(Originally published on The Cimmerian , 30th May 2009) Although I made my official Cimmerian debut last week, this is not the first tim...
Saturday, 23 May 2009

Nameless Tales: Labeling Howard’s Untitled Fiction

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(Originally published on The Cimmerian website, 23rd May 2009) I think an introduction is in order: my full name is Alexander James...