Paradoxa publishes articles on genre literature: science fiction, horror, mysteries, children's literature, romance, comic studies, the fantastic, best sellers, the occult, westerns, oral literature, and more.

No. 1 (Vol 1.1 1995)

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Table of Contents

  • Editor’s Welcome, pp 3-4
    Lauric Guillaud
  • Associate Editor’s Perspective, pp 5-6
    Victor Reinking
  • Managing Editor’s Comments, pp 7-10
    David Willingham
  • “Paraliterature” and the Mandate of Paradoxa, pp 11-38
    Brian Attebery, 8
    Sameul R. Delany, 11
    John Huntington, 13
    David Ketterer, 14
    Ursula K. Le Guin 16
    Jean Marigny, 12
    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., Tomselli, 33
    James Winchell, 35
    Gary K. Wolfe, 27
  • Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, pp 39-57
    David Willingham & Victor Reinking
  • For a Poetics of Paraliterature, Part I: Paraliterature and the Oral Tradition, pp 58-73
    Alain-Michel Boyer
  • High and Low, Good and Bad: An Exercise in Paracriticism, pp 74-84
    Robert Ellrich
  • Plural Author(ity): Ecriture from the Black Lagoon, pp 85-89
    James Winchell
  • A Paraliterary Pattern, pp 90-92
    Daniel Couègnas
  • Shelving Wars, or the Politics of “Genrefiction”, pp, 93-95
    Duane Wilkins
  • Report from Readercon, pp 96
    Ursula K. Le Guin
  • A Selected Bibliography of Paraliterary Critical Works, pp 97-100
    Norbert Spehner