Conan Meets the Academy

Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian
Herausgeber: Prida, Jonas

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9780786461523
• ISBN-10: 0786461527
• Artikelnr.: 34443782

Autorenporträt

Jonas Prida is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Notre Dame University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Inhaltsangabe

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