Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres

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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 ]

·  2008: [ Number 21 ]

 


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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

 

Marilyn Jurich

 

"Solus Solo" The Monster Self: Solipsism in Peer Gynt, Grendel, Perfume

84

 

Jacques Chouleur

 

True Heroes that Never Were

110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dialogue

 

 

James Winchell

 

Overdetermined Indeterminacy

120

 

Michael Arnzen

 

Uncanny Self-Reflexivity

129

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Brian Attebery

 

Women of Women of Wonder

138

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diverse

 

 

Brian Attebery

 

SFRA Pilgrim Award Presentation

138

 

Vivian Sobchack

 

1995 SFRA Pilgrim Award Acceptance

140

 

 

 

 

 

 


Volume 2, Number 2, 1996

 

 

Editorial Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel R. Delany

 

Introduction to Some Papers on ... Sex

149

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

 

Michael Perkins

 

Approaches to an Aesthetic of Erotic Writing as Literary Art

154

 

Pat Califia

 

Pornography as a Literature of Female Liberation

166

 

Candas Jane Dorsey

 

On Being Your Own Pornographer

191

 

Jeffery Kahan

 

Violating Hippocrates: Dildoes and Female Desire in Thomas Nashe's "The Choice of Valentines"

204

 

Neil Hartlen

 

Out of the Courts and Into the Press: An Analysis of Media Representations of Little Sister's vs. Canada Customs

217

 

Norbert Spehner

 

(S)ex-libris

234

 

Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux

 

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: Twice Harnasses Folk-Tales

249

 

Sylvia Kelso

 

Take Me For a Ride in your ManEater: Gynophobia in Stephen King's Christine

263

 

Danielle St-Laurent

 

Arms, Charms, and Sexy Peril

276

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diverse

 

 

 

 

Letters

295

 

 

 

Call for Papers

297

 


Volume 2, Number 3-4, 1996

 

 

Censorship in Children's Literature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alleen Pace Nilsen

 

Focus on Censorship

307

 

Hamida Bosmajian

 

Children's Literature and Censorship

313

 

Donna Batycki

 

Systemic Censorship

318

 

Erik Haugaard

 

Censorship and the Author

328

 

Jeri Kroll

 

Gillian Rubinstein's Beyond the Labyrinth

332

 

David Russell

 

Hope Among the Ruins

346

 

John Stephens and Robyn McCallum

 

Pruning the Secret Garden in 1990's Film

357

 

Millicent Lenz

 

Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories

369

 

Maria Nikolajeva

 

The "Serendipity" of Censorship

379

 

Midori Todayama

 

Censorship in Japan

387

 

Maj Asplund Carlsson

 

Gummy Tarzan in the School Library

393

 

Joan Gibbons

 

Censorship and Selection in New Zealand

399

 

Christiane Bimberg

 

A German View of the British Classics

406

 

Elizabeth Rosa Horan

 

Redeploying the Spanish Lullaby

411

 

Meni Kanatsouli

 

Censorship in Greece: 1974 to Present

420

 

Rod McGillis

 

Cultural Censorship

426

 

Margarita Slavova

 

Fairy Tale as Cinderella

429

 

Christa Kamenetsky

 

Censorship in Totalitarian States

434

 

Alexandra Zervou

 

The Game of Rules and Infractions

452

 

Ken Donelson

 

Censorship and Adolescent Literature

472

 

Marilyn Fain Apseloff

 

Lois Lowry: Facing the Censors

480

 

Jerry Griswold

 

Desexualizing Tom Sawyer

486

 

Nancy Huse

 

Because the Rianbow in Not Enuf

490

 

Alleen Pace Nilsen

 

M.E. Kerr: Awakening Her Readers

494

 

Maureen Nimon

 

Censorship vs. Selection in Australia

506

 

Hamida Bosmajian and Ken Donelson

 

Resources on Censorship

511

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles, Reports, Queries

 

 

Mike Cadden

 

Speaking Across the Spaces Between Us

516

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

Concerning Dinosaurs

531

 

Richard C. Lewontin

 

Response to "Concerning Dinosaurs"

533

 

Rita Rippetoe

 

Dorothy Sayers Harriet Vane Novels

534

 

James Winchell

 

Fictions of Science

542

 

Sylvia Kelso

 

WisCon 20

551

 

Jacques Goimard

 

Query

556

 

 

 

Index to Volume 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Volume 3, Number 1-2, 1997

 

 

Where's Love Gone?

Transformations in the Romance Genre

 

 

Kay Mussell

 

Where's Love Gone?

3

 

Tania Modleski

 

My Life as a Romance Reader

15

 

Beth Rapp Young

 

Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance

29

 

Jayne Ann Krentz

 

Paradoxa Interview

46

 

Lynn Coddington

 

Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre

58

 

Barbara Samuel

 

The Art of Romance

78

 

Jennifer Crusie Smith

 

Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real

81

 

Sandra Marie Booth

 

Popular Romance in the 1990's: the Paranormal vs. Feminist Humor

94

 

Deborah K. Chappel

 

LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument

107

 

Harriet Margolis

 

A Childe in love, or Is It Just Fantasy?

121

 

Pamela Regis

 

Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts' Category Fiction

145

 

Nora Roberts

 

Paradoxa Interview

155

 

Sylvia Kelso

 

Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and 30 Years of Gothic Romances

164

 

Barbara G. Mertz

 

Paradoxa Interview

180

 

Julia Bettinotti and Marie-Francoise Truel

 

Lust and Dust

184

 

Gabriele Linke

 

Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture

195

 

Janet Dailey

 

Paradoxa Interview

214

 

Patricia Koski, Lori Holyfield, Marcella Thompson

 

Romance Fiction as Women's Myth

219

 

Sara Webster Goodwin

 

Romance and Change: Undergraduate Culture

233

 

Victoria Badik

 

On Using Genre Fiction in Bibliotherapy

242

 

Kay Mussell

 

On-Line Romance

246

 

Kathleen Giles Seidel

 

Half-Risen Venus

250

 

Norbert Spehner

 

L'Amour, toujours l'amour

253

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related Articles

 

 

Robert Ellrich

 

Prolegomenon

269

 

Darby Lewes

 

[C]loathing Womanhood

286

 


Volume 3, Number 3-4, 1997

 

 

The Uncanny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Arnzen

 

The Return of the Uncanny

315

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Paul

 

Uncanny Theater

321

 

Lesley Stern

 

I Think Therefore I ... Somersault: Film and the Uncanny

348

 

Martin Norden

 

The Uncanny Film Image of the Obsessive Avenger

367

 

Elizabeth Coffman

 

Uncanny Performances in Colonial Narratives: Josephine Baker in Princess Tam Tam

379

 

Anneleen Masschelein

 

Double Reading/Reading Double: Psychoanalytic Poetics at Work

395

 

Isabel Pinedo

 

The Wet Death and the Uncanny

407

 

Steven Schneider

 

Uncanny Realism and the Decline of the Modern Horror Film

417

 

Barry K. Grant

 

Paradoxa Interview

429

 

Gesa Mackenthun

 

Haunted Real Estate

438

 

Sylvia Kelso

 

The Postmodern Uncanny: or, Establishing Uncertainty

456

 

Maria Aline Ferreira

 

The Uncanny (M)other: Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve

471

 

Karen Coats

 

Underwriting the Uncanny: The Role of Children's Literature in the Economy of the Subject

489

 

George Aichele

 

Postmodern Fantasy, Ideology, and the Uncanny

498

 

James Winchell

 

Century of the Uncanny

 

 

Terry Castle

 

Paradoxa Interview

521

 

Scott McQuire

 

The Uncanny Home: Television, Transparency, and Overexposure

527

 

Nancy Batty

 

America's Worst Nightmare ... Roseanne!

539

 

Sheila Kunkle

 

The Uncanny Effects of Cruelty

556

 

Michael Arnzen

 

Supermarketing the Uncanny: Anxiety at the Point-of-Sale

571

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Volume 4, Issue Number 9, 1998

 

 

Postmodern Potpourri

 

 

John Cawelti

 

(Post)Modern Westerns

 

3

Josh Lukin

 

Aspects of the Western Hero in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me

 

29

Paul Bleton

 

Western Fiction in French Popular Literature

 

42

Norbert Spehner

 

Wanted! A Selective Roundup of Secondary Sources About the Western - Novel and Film

 

49

Steffen Hantke

 

The Art of Being In Between: Canonicity in Jack O'Connell's "Glamorized Shoot 'Em Ups"

 

61

Jack O'Connell

 

Paradoxa Interview

 

78

Charlotte Spivak

 

The Fantastic Imagination in Literature

 

89

Vittorio Frigerio

 

The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and Bachelli's Il Sommergibile: Literary Synchronicity and the Case of the Disappearing Anarchist

 

103

Mark Whalan

 

The Literary Detective in Postmodernity

 

119

Tania Modleski

 

My Life as a Romance Writer

 

134

Kay Mussell

 

Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski

 

145

Jeffrey Kahan

 

Paradoxa Interview with Robert Bloch: Author of Psycho

 

148

James Winchell

 

Leaving the Museum: Review of Samuel R. Delany's Longer Views: Extended Essays

 

155

Vittorio Frigerio

 

Review of Barbey d'Aurevilly et le fantastique

 

161

Neal Baker

 

Terminal Experiments: Review of Nebula Awards 31

 

166

M. Thomas Inge

 

Review of Southern Writers at Century's End

 

170


Volume 4, Issue Number 10, 1998

 

 

 

Metafiction

 

 

Brian Attebery

 

Metafictions: Stories of Reading. Introduction.

 

183

Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman

 

On the Taconic

 

191

Helen Flavell

 

Fictocriticism: The End of Criticism as We Write It?

 

195

 

 

Another Cause of Misunderstanding is the Absence of Anything One Could Confidently Name a Moral

 

203

Bryan Vescio

 

On Saying Nothing: Derrida and the Violence of Interpretation

 

207

John Clute

 

What I Did on my Summer Vacation

 

223

Rosaleen Love

 

Ursula K. Le Guin and Therolinguistics

 

229

Michael Arnzen

 

The Misery of Influence

 

235

Sylvia Kelso

 

Typescript Found at a Check-out Counter

 

251

Steve Lehman

 

Sounding the Science Fiction of Arthur "Sea" Clarke

 

267

Eleanor Arnason

 

Introduction to Ten Examples of Hwarhath Fiction

 

275

 

 

Feeding the Mother: A Hwarhath Religious Anecdote

 

280

Robin McAllister

 

Borges' Prisoner of Reading

 

281

Jeanne Larsen

 

The Tale of Jian Lu-Sen: Metafiction and Other Border Crossings

 

303

Brian Attebery

 

Critical Fictions

 

318

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interview

 

 

Nicola Griffith

 

Paradoxa Interview

 

332

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Neal Baker

 

Review of Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers

 

343

Neal Baker

 

Lifeboat on a Burning Sea? Review of Nebula Awards 32

 

346

John Cawelti

 

Two Regions in Search of Identity: Review of Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature

 

349

Keyan Tomaselli

 

Review of James Iaccino's Jungian Reflections Within the Cinema

 

357

 

 

 

 

 


Volume 4, Issue Number 11, 1998

 

 

The Future of Narrative

 

 

Lance Olsen

 

The Future of Narrative: Speculative Criticism

 

375

Samuel R. Delany

 

Texts & Questions: Paradoxa Interview

 

384

Sylvia Kelso

 

Whaddaya Mean, "Narrative"?

 

431

Ursula K.LeGuin

 

Fact and/or/plus Fiction

 

451

Kumiko Yoshioka

 

Welcome to the Future: Always Coming Home

 

460

Harold Jaffe

 

Slash and Burn: A Narrative Model for the Millenium

 

477

Catherine Halley

 

A Dominatrix's Discourse: A Sadistic Reading of Roland Barthes

 

487

Steven Shaviro

 

Intrusions: Lost Highway and the Future of Narrative

 

501

Michael Joyce

 

Ordinary Fiction

 

510

Shelley Jackson

 

Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl

 

526

Brooks Landon

 

Not Your Father's Olds: Subverting the Semblance in the Age of Avant-Pop

 

539

Larry McCaffery

 

Avant-Crit and the Advent of Theory in a Musical Idiom: A Paradoxa Polylogue

 

556

Brian Evenson

 

Review of Some Other Frequency

 

603

Cam Tatham

 

Review of Federman from A to X-X-X-X

 

609

 

 

Author Index to Volume 4

 

 


Volume 5, Issue Number 12, 1999

 

 

The Divinely Human Comedy of James Morrow

 

 

James Winchell

 

Introduction: Paradoxologies

 

3

F. Brett Cox

 

The Brute Facticity of the Corpse: James Morrow, Science Fiction Writer

 

16

Alex Irvine

 

Towing Jehovah: Atheism, Orthodoxy, and Genre

 

24

Elisabeth Vonarburg

 

Evil, Justice, Suffering, and God: the Dilemma of Difference when Reading James Morrow

 

38

Richard Elliott Friedman

 

The Novelist and the Philologist, or, Nothing Happens by Chance Anymore

 

42

James Morrow

 

Raiders of the Lost Novel: An Appreciation of Richard Elliott Friedman's The Hidden Book in the Bible

 

52

Michael Bishop

 

James Morrow and Towing Jehovah: A Profile/Review

 

59

Fiona Kelleghan

 

The Rhetoric of Humor in James Morrow's The Wine of Violence

 

69

Michael Swanwick

 

Taken Gently By The Hand: James Morrow's "Arms and the Woman"

 

88

Bill Sheehan

 

Of Lunacy and Sorrow: Comedy and Tragedy in James Morrow's City of Truth

 

95

Brian Stableford

 

Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be! Confrontation with Death in The Eternal Footman

 

105

George Aichele

 

An Apology for the Madman, or the Death and Further Adventures of Jehovah

 

117

Samuel R. Delany

 

Paradoxa Interview with James Morrow: Blinded by the Enlightenment

 

132

James Morrow

 

A Vulnerable Atheist: The Author Responds to His Interpreters

 

150

 

 

Corpus Morrowi James Morrow's Complete Bibliography

 

162


Volume 5, Issue Number 13-14, 1999-2000

 

 

Potpourri Redux

 

 

Lauric Guillaud

 

Fantasy and Decadence in Clark Ashton Smith

 

189

Peter H. Goodrich

 

Sorcerous Style in Clark Ashton Smith

 

213

William Schnabel

 

Dioscuri and the Self's Monstrous Double

 

226

Gwyneth Jones

 

Chosen Among the Beautiful

 

245

Elizabeth Vonarburg

 

Fantasy: An Apologia for French Critics

 

259

Norbert Spehner

 

Conan the Librarian: A Selected Bibliography

 

270

Colin Greenland

 

Paradoxa Interview with Peter Beagle

 

288

Vittorio Frigerio

 

The Foreign Solution

 

303

Stephanie Burley

 

The Racial Politics of Category Romance

 

324

Patrick A. McCarthy

 

Do Androids Dream of Magic Flutes

 

344

Rosaleen Love

 

The Accidental Futurist

 

353

Steve Tomasula

 

Fiction at the Millennium

 

360

Scott Bukatman

 

Now Where is England?

 

377

Brian Attebery

 

Review of Women of Other Worlds

 

383

Neal Baker

 

Review of Deep Space and Sacred Time

 

386

Brian Evanson

 

Review of The Tales We Tell

 

389

Steffan Hantke

 

Review of American Magic and Dread

 

393

Gwyneth Jones

 

Review of Ça se lit comme un roman policier

 

397

Gwyneth Jones

 

Review of The Grail Legend

 

403

Rosaleen Love

 

Review of Strange Constellations

 

408

Patrick A. McCarthy

 

Review of Arthur C. Clarke: A Critical Companion

 

412

Scott McQuire

 

Review of From Pure Visibility to Virtual Reality

 

415

Patrick Millikin

 

Review of Word Made Flesh

 

419

Kay Mussell

 

Review of Scheherazade's Sisters

 

423

Alison M. Scott

 

Review of North American Romance Writers

 

426

Sarah Smith

 

Review of Detecting Texts

 

429

Nancy A. Walker

 

Review of Old Wives' Tales

 

432

 

 

AUTHOR INDEX

 

 


Volume 6, Issue Number 15, 2001

 

 

Native American Literature

 

 

Kathryn Shanley

 

Introduction: "Born from the Need to Say": Boundaries and Sovereignties in Native American Literary and Cultural Studies

 

3

Kathryn Shanley

 

Interview with James Welch

 

17

Valerie Adamcyk

 

Revising the Captivity Narrative: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee

 

38

Ellen L. Arnold

 

Maps Over the Face of God: Remapping Epistemologies in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms

 

49

Celia Naylor-Ojurongbe

 

Contexted Common Ground: Cherokee Freedpeople's National Identity and Land Ownership in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory

 

61

Duane Niatum

 

The Transformational Tracks of a Marginalized Life

 

75

Simona Fojtova

 

Forging the Discursive Presence in Gerald Vizenor's Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance

 

86

Peter Alan Froehlich & Joy Harris Philpott

 

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: A Different Kind of Captivity Narrative

 

98

Jane Haladay

 

Solemn Laughter: Humor as Subversion and Resistance in Simon Ortiz and Carter Revard

 

114

Mark Ingram

 

Envisioning Anthropology: David MacDougall and the Next Culture

 

132

Jennifer Lei Jenkins

 

Hearths and Minds: Violence and Domesticity in a Hopi Life

 

146

Roger Dunsmore

 

The Power of Kinship

 

158

Louis Owens

 

As If an Indian Were Really an Indian: Uramericans, Euramericans, and Postcolonial Theory

 

170

Jesse Peters

 

A Multitude of Routes, Roads and Paths: Trans-cultural Healing in A.A. Carr's Eye Killers

 

184

Beth Hege Piatote

 

Bodies of Memory and Forgetting: "Putting on Weight" in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

 

198

Malea Powell

 

Imagining a New Indian: Listening to the Rhetoric of Survivance in Charles Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization

 

211

Linda Palen Ruzich

 

"Sacred Thresholds": Transformation and Liminality in the Novels of Linda Hogan

 

227

Elvira Pulitano

 

Travelling the Hyperreality of Indian Simulations: Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart

 

241

Kimberly Roppolo

 

Towards a Tribal-Centered Reading of Native Literature: Using Indigenous Rhetoric(s) Instead of Literary Analysis

 

263

Kimberly Roppolo

 

Wisdom of the Elders

 

275

Geary Hobson

 

Statement: Indian Academics must Speak for Themselves

 

279

P. Jane Hafen

 

Statement: More than Intellectual Exploration

 

280

Jeane Breinig

 

Statement: To Native Scholars, Just Starting Out

 

281

Clifford E. Trafzer

 

Statement: Sharing with Native Communities and Elders

 

282

Carol Miller

 

Statement: Academe as Indian Country

 

283

Louis Owens

 

Statement: Part and Whole: Dangerous Bifurcations

 

286

Vine Deloria

 

Statement: No More Free Rides

 

287

Martha Barter

 

Review: The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in 19th Centurry American Culture

 

288

Susan Bernardin

 

Review: Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays

 

292

Andrew Denson

 

Review: The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation

 

297

Robert F. Gish

 

Review: The Rock Island Hiking Club. Poems by Ray A. Young Bear

 

300

Carol Miller

 

Review: Louise Erdrich, A Critical Companion

 

306

Jack Weaver

 

Review: Coyote Kills John Wayne

 

310


Issue Number 16, 2002

 

 

DARK ALLEYS OF NOIR

 

 

 

 

Essays

 

 

Jack O'Connell

 

That Sense of Impending Doom

 

3

Jeanne Ewert

 

Hardboiled (Had I but Known)

 

11

Paula Geyh

 

Enlightenment Noir: Hammett's Detectives and the Genealogy of the Modern (Private) "I"

 

26

Woody Haut

 

In the Thieves' Market: The Life and Times of A.I. Bezzerides

 

48

Woody Haut

 

John Fante: Between Two Worlds

 

56

Jonathan Lethem

 

Bibliography

 

75

Sylvia Kelso

 

Noir on Noir: Barbara Hambly's New Orleans Detective Novels

 

80

Rob Latham

 

VR Noir: Kim Newman's The Night Mayor

 

95

Stanley Orr

 

Late Victorian Adventure and Film Noir

 

123

David Schmid

 

Masculinity in the Novels of David Goodis

 

153

JP Telotte

 

Lost Memory and New Noir

 

177

Helen M. Whall

 

Walter Mosley and the Books of Ezekiel

 

190

Trisha Yarbrough

 

Jim Thompson's Rural Pulp Fiction

 

203

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviews

 

 

Jonathan Lethem

 

Paradoxa Interview by Shelley Jackson

 

62

Robert Skinner

 

Paradoxa Interview by Patrick Millikin

 

110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

 

Norbert Spehner

 

A Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Noir -- Novel and Film

 

211

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

John H. Dorenkamp

 

Reviews of The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammet and The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler

 

230

Carl Freedman

 

Review of America Noir

 

236

Steffen Hantke

 

Reviews of Die Lange Nacht der Schatten: Film Noir und Filmexil and M

 

242

David Schmid

 

Review of Murdering Masculinities

 

247

Robert Skinner

 

Review of The Life and Legend of Chester Himes

 

255

B.R. Smith

 

Review of PopLit, PopCult and The X-Files

 

266

Vivian Sobchack

 

Review of More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts

 

270

Michael Spingler

 

Hedy Lamarr's Face: Review of Out of the Past

 

277

Marcus Stiglegger

 

 

Review of The Noir Thriller

 

 

281

Alan Wald

 

Review of Gumshoe America

 

285


Issue Number 17, 2002

 

 

HORROR

 

 

 

 

Essays

 

 

Steffen Hantke

 

Shudder as We Think

 

1

Tricia Henry Young

 

Bela Lugosi's Dead and I'm Not Feeling Too Good Either: The Politics and Aesthetics of Gothic Club Dancing

 

10

Mark Wegley

 

Fear Unknowable: Le Fanu's Contribution to the Literary Fantastic

 

32

Tony Williams

 

Domesticity as Horror: George A. Romero's Jack's Wife

 

52

Michael Hoover &
Lisa Odham Stokes

 

At the Hong Kong Hop: Mr. Vampire Spawns Bloodsucking Genre

 

68

Ken Gelder

 

Haitian Voodoo as a Postcolonial Symptom

 

77

David Kirby

 

Are We Not Men? The Horror of Eugenics in The Island of Dr. Moreau

 

93

Eugene Thacker

 

Biohorror/Biotech

 

109

Jay McRoy

 

There are no Limits: Splatterpunk, Clive Barker, and the Body in extremis

 

130

Chantal Bourgault

 

A Manifesto for Werewolves: What the Cyborgs Didn't Tell Us

 

151

Kate Sullivan

 

Meeting Monsters, Loving Men: Abjection and Community in Peter Straub's Ghost Story and Stephen King's "The Breathing Method"

 

176

Sylvia Kelso

 

Writing About On Writing

 

200

Susan Poznar

 

Judith Hawkes' Julian's House and the Possibilities of the Postmodern Ghost Story

 

210

Rebecca Munford

 

Re-vamping the Gothic: Representations of the Gothic Heroine in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus

 

235

David Annandale

 

Guerilla Vamping: Vampyros Lesbos, the Becoming -- Woman of Women and the Unravelling of the Male Gaze

 

257

David Scott Diffrient

 

Narrative Mortality: The 'Fragmegrated' Corpse of the Horror Anthology Film

 

271

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviews

 

 

Kathe Koja

 

Paradoxa Interview by Steffen Hantke

 

302

Graham Joyce

 

Paradoxa Interview by Liz Williams

 

314

Adam Simon

 

Paradoxa Interview by Steven Schneider

 

323

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Paul Di Filippo

 

Reviews of Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters and The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

 

334

Kim Newman

 

Review of 20th Century Horror

 

338

Steffen Hantke

 

Review of Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction

 

343

Michael Filas

 

Review of False Positive

 

348

Steffen Hantke

 

Reviews of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde

 

354

Reynold Humphries

 

Review of A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film

 

360

Philip L. Simpson

 

Two Gore Auteurs: Reviews of Wes Craven: The Art of Horror, and Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore

 

368

Christopher Morris

 

Review of Hitchcock and Art

 

372

Michael Arnzen

 

Review of At the Foot of the Story Tree

 

375

Steffen Hantke

 

Review of Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear

 

381


Issue Number 18, 2003

 

 

FIFTIES FICTIONS

 

 

 

 

Essays

 

 

Josh Lukin

 

Under Gray Flannel

 

1

Cyndy Hendershot

 

Cold War Confessions and the FBI Plant: The Amazing Lives and Myths of Matt Cvetic and Herbert Philbrick

 

8

Tova Cooper

 

Who's Been Duped? Communists, Kids and Dangerous Drawings in Entertaining Comics' "Cosmic Ray Bomb Explosion"

 

24

Andrew Hoberek

 

Sociology as Science Fiction

 

81

Kurt Hemmer

 

The Prostitute Speaks: Brenda Frazer's: Troia: Mexican Memoirs

 

99

Victoria J. Hesford

 

"A Love Flung Out of Space": Lesbians in the City in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt

 

118

Justine Larbalestier &
Helen Merrick

 

The Revolting Housewife: Women and Science Fiction in the 1950s

 

136

Josh Lukin

 

Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train as Tragedy of Manners

 

157

Stephanie Brown

 

"If I Can Only Get It Funny!": The Postwar Primitive and Chester Himes' Parodic Protest Novel

 

211

Holly Hutton

 

Bullies and Humanists: Richard Wright's The Outsider

 

234

Julia Creet

 

Voyage from Lesbos: Aggression, Ambivalence, and Psychoanalysis in the Fifties

 

251

Samuel R. Delany

 

Velocities of Change

 

279

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviews

 

 

Chandler Davis

 

Paradoxa Interview by Josh Lukin

 

49

Richard Matheson

 

Paradoxa Interview by Jack O'Connell and Jim Sallis

 

195

William Tenn

 

Paradoxa Interview by Josh Lukin

 

313

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Christina Klein

 

Review of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000

 

334

Tracy Floreani

 

Review of White Diaspora: The Suburb and The Twentieth-Century American Novel

 

338

James Morrow

 

The Lore of the Ding-a-Lings: An Appreciation of W.T. Lhamon Jr.'s Deliberate Speed

 

343

Brian McHale

 

Review of Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964

 

348

Ann Keefer

 

Reviews of The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

 

373

L. Timmel Duchamp

 

Review of Science Fiction Culture

 

380

Elayne Tobin

 

Review of The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s

 

389

Wendy Pearson

 

18 Thoughts on Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

 

395

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leslie Fiedler In Memoriam

 

399


Issue Number 19, 2004

 

 

THE WESTERN

 

 

 

 

Essays

 

 

Homer B. Pettey

 

Enduring Western Imagery in Popular Culture

 

1

John Cawelti

 

Myths and Fantasies of the West

 

27

Harry Brown

 

"A Scorned Outcast Thing": Mixed-Blood Outlaws in the Dime Novel  

 

41

Paul Reddin

 

The Cowboy's Twisted Trail from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee to Playboy Magazine

 

57

Eric L. Reinholtz

 

Buster Keaton's Cervantic Westerns: Subversion of the Six-Gun Mystique

 

79

Jennifer Lei Jenkins

 

The Mexican Revolution as Western Vengeance Quest: Azuela's Los de Abajo

 

94

Lee Clark Mitchell

 

Why Monument Valley? (And Why Again and Again?): John Ford's Stagecoach and the Landscape of Time

 

116

John Lenihan

 

The Searchers: Now and Then

 

147

Corless Smith

 

Done in by Demographics: Why the Western Rode into the Sunset

 

161

Homer B. Pettey

 

Sacred Sites of Violence in the Western: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch

 

175

Charles Sherry

 

"The Theater of His Life": Wild Bill Hickock's Amor Fati

 

201

Fred See

 

Larceny, Swindle, Drought, Fire, Earthquake, Plague, Riot, Murder, Rape,Incest: Los Angeles as our Western Frontie

 

211

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviews

 

 

Walon Greem

 

Paradoxa Interview by Homer Pettey

 

240

Max Evans

 

Paradoxa Interview by Homer Pettey

 

259

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Jennifer Lei Jenkins

 

Return of the Vanishing Native American

 

285

Gretchen Ronnow

 

Legends of the Hollywood West

 

290

Carmen Ortiz Henley

 

he Enigmatic John Ford, Western Director

 

295

Jennifer Lei Jenkins

 

What Lies Beneath

 

303

Joanna Hearne

 

Singing Cowboys, Minstrel Songs: A Review of Peter Stanfield's Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail

 

307

Gretchen Ronnow

 

Positing Western History

 

312

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

 

Homer B. Pettey

 

Selected Bibliography on the Western and the West, and Selected Filmography on the Western Film and Television Series

 

317


Issue Number 20, 2006

 

 

TERRAINS VAGUES

 

 

 

 

Essays

 

 

Katherine & Lee Horsley

 

Body Language: Reading the Corpse in Forensic Crime Fiction

 

7

Eugenie Brinkema

 

The Lady Van(qu)ishes: Interiority, Abjection, and the Function of Rape in Horror Film

 

33

Steffen Hantke

 

Consuming the Impossible Body: Horror Film and the Spectacle of Cinematic Special Effects 

 

66

Guy Crucianelli

 

Painting the Life Out of Her: Aesthetic Integration and Disintegration in Jean Epstein's La Chute de la maison Usher

 

80

Tom La Farge

 

The Reader of Maps

 

96

Carolyn A. Durham

 

New Mysteries of Paris: The Riddling of the City in Cara Black's Detective Novels

 

112

Jane Rosenberg LaForge

 

Colson Whitehead: The Final Frontier

 

129

Patricia K.L. Goon

 

The Shared Bed of Slash and Science Fiction

 

151

Julie Nash

 

Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone: The Feminist Supernatural in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shirley Jackson, and Fay Weldon

 

173

Timothy C. Campbell

 

Violent Cities: Virility and B-Movie Fascism in the Cop Films of Umberto Lenzi

 

185

Jonathan David York

 

The Family Romance of the Numen: The Quest for the Unself in Altered States

 

201

Rudolphus Teeuwen

 

The Way We Live Now: David Damrosch's Meetings of the Mind

 

219

Harold Jaffe

 

Outcast Narrative

 

235

Sylvia Kelso

 

Evolutions of the Fantasy Hero in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion

 

247

Vittorio Frigerio

 

Backwater of History: Alexandre Dumas and the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799

 

263

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Brian Attebury

 

Review of Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction

 

287

David Banash

 

Review of Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction

 

291

Guy Crucinelli

 

Review of Silent Film Sound

 

296

Brian Evenson

 

Review of Expelled From Eden: A William T. Vollman Reader

 

301

Gwyneth Jones

 

Review of Le Vampire dans la litterature du XXe siecle

 

306

Steffen Hantke

 

Review of The Horror Film

 

312

Steffen Hantke

 

Review of Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe

 

315

Harold Jaffe

 

Fetish Sport

 

318

Mark McGurl

 

Review of Scorned Literature

 

324

Jay McRoy

 

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Severed Head: Review of Harold Jaffe's 15 Serial Killers

 

328

Philip L. Simpson

 

John Carpenter: No Respect?

 

334

Rudolphus Teeuwen

 

Review of La Terreur et le sacre: La nuit gothique americaine

 

340

Gary Westfahl 

 

Review of Back in the Spaceship Again

 

345 

 

Issue Number 21, 2008

 

 

URSULA K. LE GUIN

 

 

 

 

Essays

 

 

Sylvia A. Kelso

 

Boldly to Re-Venture: New Writing on the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin

 

6

Darko Suvin

 

Cognition, Freedom, The Dispossessed as a Classic

 

22

Beth Snowberger