Cover image unavailableConan Meets the Academy
Publication date: November 2012
Introduction
Issue #3 of a fanzine about Robert E. Howard, featuring some fiction.
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.
Notes
Edited by Jonas Prida
Contains many excerpts from REH prose and poetry.
Publication date given as 2013 on copyright page.
Cover artist credited on back cover and copyright page.
The "Preface" and "Introduction" are not credited, but both were almost certainly written by Jonas Prida.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Trade paperback
- Publication date
- November 2012
- Pages
- vii + 216
- Publisher / imprint
- McFarland & Company
- Cover art
- Mark Durr
- Illustrations
- None
30 contents entries
- Preface
- Preface (Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian) • essay by uncredited 1 · introduction
- Introduction
- Introduction (Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian) • essay by uncredited 5 · introduction
- Part One: The Literary Conan
- Hyborian Age Archaeology: Unearthing Historical and Anthropological Foundations • essay by Jeffrey Shanks 13 · essay
- "Hyborian Age Archaeology: Unearthing Historical and Anthropological Foundations" by Jeffrey Shanks
- Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins of the Character and His World • essay by Frank Coffman 35 · essay
- "Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins of the Character and His World" by Frank Coffman
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Women: Gender Dynamics in the Hyborian World • essay by Winter Elliott 51 · essay
- "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Women: Gender Dynamics in the Hyborian World" by Winter Elliott
- Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and the Western: A Study of Conan Through the West and the Western Hero • essay by Daniel Weiss 70 · essay
- "Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and the Western: A Study of Conan Through the West and the Western Hero" by Daniel Weiss
- Canaan Lies Beyond the Black River: Howard's Dark Rhetoric of the Contact Zone • essay by Paul Shovlin 91 · essay
- "Canaan Lies Beyond the Black River: Howard's Dark Rhetoric of the Contact Zone" by Paul Shovlin
- Statistics in the Hyborian Age: An Introduction to Stylometry • essay by Daniel M. Look 103 · introduction
- "Statistics in the Hyborian Age: An Introduction to Stylometry" by Daniel M. Look
- Arnold at the Gates: Subverting Star Persona in "Conan" • essay by Nicky Falkof 123 · essay
- Part Two: The Cultural Conan
- "Hot Avatars" in "Gay Gear": The Virtual Male Body as Site of Conflicting Desires in "Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures" • essay by James Kelley 144 · essay
- "Arnold at the Gates: Subverting Star Persona in Conan the Barbarian " by Nicky Falkof
- Fandom and the Nostalgia of Masculinity • essay by Stephen Wall 174 · essay
- "'Hot Avatars' in 'Gay Gear': The Virtual Male Body as Site of Conflicting Desires in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures " by James Kelley
- "Barbarian Heroing" and Its Parody: New Perspectives on Masculinity • essay by Imola Bulgozdi 193 · essay
- "Fandom and the Nostalgia of Masculinity" by Stephen Wall
- About the Contributors (Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian) • essay by uncredited 213 · essay
- "'Barbarian Heroing' and Its Parody: New Perspectives on Masculinity" by Imola Bulgozdi
- Index (Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian) • essay by uncredited 215 · essay
- About the Contributors
- Index
Contributors
- Mark Durr
- Cover artist
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- Conan Meets the Academy
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Date
- November 2012
- Source file
- conanmeetstheacademy.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Conan Meets the Academy
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Date
- November 2012