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WTTE Ep39: Edgar Rice Burroughs
December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 Conor20th Century Literature, American Literature, Popular Culture

Ep 39: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs is no longer a familiar name. Like many other authors, the fame of his greatest creation, in his case Tarzan, has long eclipsed his own. But Burroughs was far more than the creator of Tarzan. He was an early pioneer of science fiction, a master of the read more…

August 20, 2017January 25, 2018 Conor20th Century Literature, Literature and Science, Science, Science Fiction

Episode 5: Canals on Mars

Percival Lowell, Science Fiction, and the Canals on Mars   (c) ESO / M. Kornmesser Artist’s impression of Mars about four billion years ago. For as long as humans have been looking at the night sky, the planet Mars has fascinated us. But while astronomers had charted the movements of read more…

August 10, 2017January 9, 2018 Conor20th Century Literature, 21st Century Literature, Popular Culture

Genrefication & Popular Literature [Article]

“Genrefication”? Did you just make that up?   Episode 4 of Words To That Effect (listen here) explores the world of popular and literary fiction. One of the ideas that comes up is that of “genrefication”, the concept that the traditional boundaries between “literary” and “genre” (or popular) fiction are read more…

August 6, 2017January 25, 2018 Conor20th Century Literature, 21st Century Literature, Popular Culture

Episode 4: Popular Literature

What is popular literature? Walk into most bookshops and you will find fiction categories like “Crime”, “Science Fiction”, and “Horror”. You will also tend to find a section called “Literature”. But how does a book get placed here? Is there really such a thing as “Literature” (with a capital “L”), read more…

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