Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres

Tables of Contents


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·  Volume 1 [ 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 ]

·  Volume 2 [ 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3-4 ]

·  Volume 3 [ 3.1-2 | 3.3-4 ]

·  Volume 4 [ 4.9 | 4.10 | 4.11 ]

·  Volume 5 [ 5.12 | 5.13-14 ]

·  Volume 6 [ 6.15 ]

·  2002: [ Number 16 | Number 17 ]

·  2003: [ Number 18 ]

·  2004: [ Number 19 ]

·  2006: [ Number 20 ]


Volume 1, Number 1, 1995

 

 

Editorial Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lauric Guillaud

 

Editor's Welcome

3

 

 

 

Members of the Editorial Board on "Paraliterature"

 

 

 

 

Brian Attebery, 8; Samuel R. Delany, 11; John Huntington, 13; David Ketterer, 14; Ursula K. Le Guin, 16; Jean Marigny, 17; Patrick McCarthy, 18; Michael Moorcock, 19; David Pringle, 23; Franz Rottensteiner, 24; David N. Samuelson, 26; Vivian Sobchack, 27; C.W. Sullivan III, 28; Takayuki Tatsumi, 30; Keyan G. Tomaselli, 33; James Winchell, 35; Gary K. Wolfe, 37.

 

 

 

 

Interview

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin

39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alain-Michel Boyer

 

For a Poetics of Paraliterature, Part I: Paraliterature and the Oral Tradition

58

 

Robert Ellrich

 

High and Low, Good and Bad: An Exercise in Paracriticism

74

 

James Winchell

 

Plural Author(ity): Ecriture from the Black Lagoon

85

 

Daniel Cougnas

 

A Paraliterary Pattern

90

 

Duane Wilkins

 

Shelving Wars, or The Politics of "Genrefication"

93

 

 

 

Reports and Reviews

 

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

Readercon '94

96

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

 

Norbert Spehner

 

A Selected Bibliography of Paraliterary Critical Works

97

 


Volume 1, Number 2, 1995

 

 

Editorial Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lauric Guillaud

 

Editor's Pages

105

 

 

 

Members of the Editorial Board on "Paraliterature"

 

 

 

 

Donald M. Hassler, 108; Charles Nicol, 110; Pamela Sargent, 112

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alain-Michel Boyer

 

For a Poetics of Paraliterature, Part II: Paraliterature and Rhetoric

116

 

Marc Lits

 

The Classical Origins and the Development of the Detective Novel Genre

126

 

Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian

 

On Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction

145

 

Robert Conrath

 

Pulp-Fixation: The Hard-Boiled American Crime Novel and its French Public

161

 

Barbara Wilson

 

The Outside Edge: Lesbian Mysteries

176

 

Paul Bleton

 

French Espionage, Spy Fiction, and Readers in the 1930's

187

 

Paul Bleton

 

French Espionage -- Bibliography

210

 

Charles Nicol

 

Frank Lloyd Wright and Mr. Moto

224

 

Charles Givel

 

Populaire (Reflexions)

231

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Lauric Guillaud

 

Fantastique -- Fiction, by Charles Grivel

238

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letters

240

 


Volume 1, Number 3, 1995

 

 

Editorial Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lauric Guillaud

 

This Issue and the Next

255

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interview

 

 

Samuel R. Delany

 

Paradoxa Interview

257

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

 

C.W. Sullivan III

 

Marginalizing the Fantastic

287

 

Lauric Guillaud

 

Paranormal Detectives

301

 

Michael Moorcock

 

Fritz Leiber

320

 

Bennett Lovett-Graff

 

Reproduction and its Discontents

325

 

Michael A. Arnzen

 

"Behold the Funhole"

342

 

Jean Marigny

 

Eros in the Novels of Anne Rice

352

 

Pamela Sargent

 

The Historical Novelist and History

363

 

R.C. Harvey

 

Understanding Understanding Comics

375

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Jean-Charles Pichon

 

Un Temps trop tot

385

 

Jean-Paul Debenat

 

A Note on Jean-Charles Pichon

390

 

Bennett Lovett-Graff

 

The Supernatural and English Fiction

391

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diverse

 

 

 

 

Letters

394

 

Ellen Datlow

 

Call for Papers: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

395

 

Daniel Cougnas

 

Jean-Claude Vareille: In Memoriam

396

 

 

 

Author Index to Volume 1

 

 


Volume 2, Number 1, 1996

 

 

Editorial Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victor W. Reinking

 

This Issue and the Next

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Cities of the Future" -- Essays

 

 

Brian Attebery

 

Theme Parks and Urban Growths

6

 

Greg Bear

 

Washington Transformed

10

 

Steve Brown

 

The Valley of Kings

16

 

John Clute

 

"City" and "Urban Fantasy"

19

 

Samuel R. Delany

 

A Future Narrative of Cities

27

 

Kathleen Ann Goonan

 

Cities of the Future?

30

 

Nicola Griffith

 

Layered Cities

36

 

Eileen Gunn

 

Smoke and Mirrors: Creating the City

41

 

David Hartwell

 

Cities of Science Fiction

43

 

Kim Stanley Robinson

 

Cities in the Overshoot

44

 

Bruce Sterling

 

The Virtual City

46

 

Takayuki Tatsumi

 

Junk Art City

61

 

Elisabeth Vonarburg

 

Cities of the Future

73

 

Richard Woods

 

Once and Future Cities

81