Of Modern Dragons and Other Essays on Genre Fiction

De: John Lennard

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The first of John Lennard's two volumes of essays exploring some of the best genre fiction of the last 40 years. The essays cover work by Reginald Hill, Thomas Harris, Dorothy L. Sayers, Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb (since 2000 the world's best-selling novelist), J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Ian McDonald, Octavia E. Butler, and The Tortallan World of Tamora Pierce. John Lennard was Professor of English and American Literature at the University of the West Indies--Mona, from 2004 to 2009, and has also aught in Cambridge and London. His books include ‘But I Digress’ (Clarendon, 1991), ‘The Poetry Handbook’ (OUP, 1996; 2/e 2005), ‘The Drama Handbook’ (with Mary Luckhurst, OUP, 2002), ‘Of Sex and Faerie’ (HEB 2010), Literature Insights on ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear’ (HEB, 2007, 2010), and Genre Fiction Sightlines on Octavia Butler, Reginald Hill, Ian McDonald, Walter Mosley, and Tamora Pierce (all HEB, 2007). He is General Editor of the HEB Genre Fiction Sightlines and Monographs series. REVIEW COMMENTS “Wonderful stuff” —Ian McDonald. “It is … a tremendous thrill for a writer when someone really ‘gets it’ about what she’s trying to do”—Tamora Pierce. “On nearly every page is a provocatively compressed insight”—Steven Poole, The Guardian.