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. 2 (Vol 1.2 1995)

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Table of Contents

  • Editorial Pages

  • Editor’s Pages, pp 105 – 107
    Lauric Guillaud

  • Members of the Editorial Board on “Paraliterature,” pp 108 – 115
    Donald M. Hassler, 108
    Charles Nicol, 110
    Pamela Sargent, 112

    Articles

  • For a Poetics of Paraliterature, Part II: Paraliterature and Rhetoric, pp 116 – 125
    Alain-Michel Boyer

  • The Classical Origins and the Development of the Detective Novel Genre, pp 126 – 144
    Marc Lits

  • On Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, pp 145 – 160
    Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian

  • Pulp-Fixation: The Hard-Boiled American Crime Novel and its French Public, pp 161 – 175
    Robert Conrath

  • The Outside Edge: Lesbian Mysteries, pp 176 – 186
    Barbara Wilson

  • French Espionage, Spy Fiction, and Readers in the 1930s, pp 187 – 209
    Paul Bleton

  • French Espionage – Bibliography, pp 210 – 223
    Paul Bleton

  • Frank Lloyd Wright and Mr. Moto, pp 224 – 230
    Charles Nicol

  • Populaire (Réflexions), pp 231 – 237
    Charles Grivel­

    Reviews

  • Fantastique-Fiction by Charles Grivel, pp 238 – 239
    Lauric Guillaud

  • Letters, pp 240 – 245
    David Pringle, pp 244
    Eugene Webb, pp 244
    Ursula K Le Guin, pp 244
    Roger Bozzetto, pp 245
    
Takayuki Tatsumi, pp, 245