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Conan Meets the Academy
Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian
Taschenbuch von Jonas Prida
Sprache: Englisch

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Robert E. Howard penned a series of fantasy stories in 1932 featuring Conan, a hulking warrior from "Cimmeria" who roamed the mythical Hyborian Age landscape engaging in heroic adventures. More than the quirky manifestation of Depression-era magazines, Conan the Barbarian has endured as a cultural mainstay for over 70 years. This multidisciplinary collection offers the first scholarly investigation of Conan, from Howard's early stories, through midcentury novels and Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic films, to the 2011 cinematic remake of Conan the Barbarian. Drawing on disciplines such as stylometry, archeology, cultural and folklore studies and literary history, the essays examine statistical analyses of the words in Conan texts, the literary genesis of Conan, later-day parodies, Conan video games, and much more. This volume reveals the hidden scholarly depth of this seemingly unsophisticated fictional character.
Robert E. Howard penned a series of fantasy stories in 1932 featuring Conan, a hulking warrior from "Cimmeria" who roamed the mythical Hyborian Age landscape engaging in heroic adventures. More than the quirky manifestation of Depression-era magazines, Conan the Barbarian has endured as a cultural mainstay for over 70 years. This multidisciplinary collection offers the first scholarly investigation of Conan, from Howard's early stories, through midcentury novels and Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic films, to the 2011 cinematic remake of Conan the Barbarian. Drawing on disciplines such as stylometry, archeology, cultural and folklore studies and literary history, the essays examine statistical analyses of the words in Conan texts, the literary genesis of Conan, later-day parodies, Conan video games, and much more. This volume reveals the hidden scholarly depth of this seemingly unsophisticated fictional character.
Über den Autor
Jonas Prida is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Notre Dame University of Maryland in Baltimore.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Literary Conan

Hyborian Age Archaeology: Unearthing Historical and

deleteAnthropological Foundations deleteJeffrey Shanks

Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins

deletethe Character and His World deleteFrank Coffman

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Women: Gender Dynamics

deletethe Hyborian World deleteWinter Elliott

Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and the Western: A Study of Conan

deleteThrough the West and the Western Hero deleteDaniel Weiss

Canaan Lies Beyond the Black River: Howard's Dark Rhetoric

deleteof the Contact Zone deletePaul Shovlin

Statistics in the Hyborian Age: An Introduction to Stylometry

deleteDaniel M. Look

Part Two: The Cultural Conan

Arnold at the Gates: Subverting Star Persona in Conan

deletethe Barbarian deleteNicky Falkof

"Hot Avatars" in "Gay Gear": The Virtual Male Body as Site

deleteof Con¿icting Desires in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

deleteJames Kelley

Fandom and the Nostalgia of Masculinity deleteStephen Wall

"Barbarian Heroing" and Its Parody: New Perspectives

deleteMasculinity deleteImola Bulgozdi

About the Contributors

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 226
ISBN-13: 9780786461523
ISBN-10: 0786461527
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Prida, Jonas
Hersteller: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Jonas Prida
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2012
Gewicht: 0,335 kg
preigu-id: 106740408
Über den Autor
Jonas Prida is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Notre Dame University of Maryland in Baltimore.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Literary Conan

Hyborian Age Archaeology: Unearthing Historical and

deleteAnthropological Foundations deleteJeffrey Shanks

Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins

deletethe Character and His World deleteFrank Coffman

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Women: Gender Dynamics

deletethe Hyborian World deleteWinter Elliott

Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and the Western: A Study of Conan

deleteThrough the West and the Western Hero deleteDaniel Weiss

Canaan Lies Beyond the Black River: Howard's Dark Rhetoric

deleteof the Contact Zone deletePaul Shovlin

Statistics in the Hyborian Age: An Introduction to Stylometry

deleteDaniel M. Look

Part Two: The Cultural Conan

Arnold at the Gates: Subverting Star Persona in Conan

deletethe Barbarian deleteNicky Falkof

"Hot Avatars" in "Gay Gear": The Virtual Male Body as Site

deleteof Con¿icting Desires in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

deleteJames Kelley

Fandom and the Nostalgia of Masculinity deleteStephen Wall

"Barbarian Heroing" and Its Parody: New Perspectives

deleteMasculinity deleteImola Bulgozdi

About the Contributors

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 226
ISBN-13: 9780786461523
ISBN-10: 0786461527
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Prida, Jonas
Hersteller: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Jonas Prida
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2012
Gewicht: 0,335 kg
preigu-id: 106740408
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