Literary Criticism and Reviews: Other Authors
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In a way, the term “Other Authors” here makes me cringe a little.
Willa Cather, for example—about whose work I wrote the lead essay for the Winter 2000 issue of the journal pictured at right—is hardly merely an “other.” Yevgeny Zamyatin began the modern science-fictional dystopia with his wittily ironic and impressionistic novel We, and of course who has not heard of Aldous Huxley’s equally witty and equally bleak Brave New World? And in the field of science fiction, the famed Robert Silverberg is... Well, you see what I mean. Oh, yes— And I guess it’s a tad odd to call Shakespeare an “other,” too, isn’t it...? Still, if I am to categorize my own writings, which contain so much on Heinlein and Bradbury, this seems about the only way. My chapter in M. Keith Booker’s Critical Insights: Dystopia is listed again here, by the way, because it actually discusses 1984 and Brave New World rather more than it does Fahrenheit 451—similar deal with my chapter comparing Heinlein’s Tunnel in the Sky and Golding’s Lord of the Flies and the one comparing Heinlein’s Tunnel Have Space Suit—Will Travel with Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. |
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In any event, as always, most of these articles are available through the online literary research databases to which libraries often subscribe, and for some I can provide links to full-text resources elsewhere online.
“ ‘A Grim-Jawed Angel of Mercy’ or ‘There’s No Question of Heroism in All This’ ? Crisis and Response in Albert Camus’s The Plague and Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Sky Lift’.” Critical Insights: The Plague. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Critical Insights Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, forthcoming 2023.
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“ ‘There Must Be Something Wrong with Us’ Versus ‘A Black Widow Spider Can’t Help It—But That’s the Point’: Right and Wrong and Responsibility in In Cold Blood and Robert A. Heinlein’s Tunnel Have Space Suit—Will Travel.” Critical Insights: In Cold Blood. Ed. Nicolas Tredell. Critical Insights Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2020. 135-50. |
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“From ‘A Fairy Story’ To ‘Darning a Worn-Out Sock, Cadging a Saccharine Tablet, Saving a Cigarette End’: Narrative Strategies in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eight-Four.” Critical Insights: Animal Farm. Ed. Thomas Horan. Critical Insights Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2018. 48-59. |
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“ ‘Until the Grownups Come to Fetch Us’ Versus ‘To Found a New Nation’: Human Nature in Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Heinlein’s Tunnel in the Sky.” Critical Insights: Lord of the Flies. Ed. Sarah Elizabeth Fredericks. Critical Insights Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2017. 73-87. |
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“Carl Sagan” (with Karen Garvin). Critical Survey of American Literature, 3rd ed. vol. 5. Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Critical Survey Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 2643-51. |
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“From ‘The Splitting-Up of the World into Three Great Superstates’ to ‘A Bare, Hungry, Dilapidated Place’: 1949 in Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Critical Insights: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ed. Thomas Horan. Critical Insights Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 113-27. |
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“Around the World in Eighty Days—Jules Verne.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places, 2nd ed. vol. 1. Ed. Denise Lenchner. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 52.
“Dune—Frank Herbert.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places, 2nd ed. vol. 1. Ed. Denise Lenchner. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 300. |
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“The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places, 2nd ed. vol. 2. Ed. Denise Lenchner. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 466. “The Human Stain—Philip Roth.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places, 2nd ed. vol. 2. Ed. Denise Lenchner. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 484-85. |
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“Harper Lee.” Great Lives from History: American Women vol. 2. Ed. Mary K. Trigg. Great Lives from History Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2016. 696-99.
“Around the World in Eighty Days—Jules Verne.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 18-19.
“A Clockwork Orange—Anthony Burgess.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 61.
“The Earthsea Trilogy--Ursula K. LeGuin.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 90.
“The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 141-42.
“The Left Hand of Darkness—Ursula K. LeGuin.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 170-71.
“Silent Spring—Rachel Carson.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 294.
“A Clockwork Orange—Anthony Burgess.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 61.
“The Earthsea Trilogy--Ursula K. LeGuin.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 90.
“The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 141-42.
“The Left Hand of Darkness—Ursula K. LeGuin.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 170-71.
“Silent Spring—Rachel Carson.” Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 294.
“Familial Rights and Responsibilities in Romeo and Juliet and King Lear.” Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays, 2nd ed. Ed. Joseph Rosenblum. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 69-77.
“A Guide to Free Online Resources on Shakespeare’s Plays.” Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays, 2nd ed. Ed. Joseph Rosenblum. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2015. 293-98.
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“The Lasting Allure of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Critical Survey Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2014. 18-25. “A Guide to Free Online Shakespeare Resources.” Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Critical Survey Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2014. 294-300. |
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“ ‘They Got Me a Long Time Ago’: The Sympathetic Villain in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451.” Critical Insights: Dystopia. Ed. M. Keith Booker. Critical Insights Series. Ispwich, MA: Salem, 2013. 125-41. |
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“From a ‘Stretch of Grey Sea’ to the ‘Extent of Space’: The Gaze across Vistas in Cather’s The Professor’s House.” Western American Literature 34 (Winter 2000): 388-408. Listed in Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay. “A Guide to Research: Willa Cather (1873-1947).” 2001. URL: http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/catherguide.html. Cited in Glen A. Love. “Nature and Human Nature: Interdisciplinary Convergences on Cather’s Blue Mesa.” Cather Studies 5: Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination. Ed. Susan J. Rosowski. Lincoln, NB: U of Nebraska P, 2003. |
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Cited in Danielle Russell. Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morisson. New York: Routledge, 2006. 199.
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“[Numbers and Meaning in] Zamyatin’s We” (with Bretton J. Dennis). The Explicator 58 (Summer 2000): 211-13. Available online here. |
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“[Images of Superficiality in] Olds’ ‘Sex Without Love.’ ” The Explicator 58 (Fall 1999): 60-62. Available online here. Listed in Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Catherine Cucinelle. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 262. |
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“[Names in] Huxley’s Brave New World.” The Explicator 57 (Fall 1998): 27-30. Available online here. Rpt. as “Literary and Political Allusions behind Huxley’s Choice of Names” in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Ed. Harold Bloom. Bloom’s Guides Series. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. 92-95. Cited in Corey Abel. “The Politics of Love and Friendship: 1984 and Brave New World.” Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times. Ed. Eduardo A. Velasquez. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2003. 472. |
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Cited in “Onomastic Satire: Names and Naming in Brave New World.” Aldous Huxley: Modern Satirical Novelist of Ideas. Ed. Peter E. Firchow and Bernfried Nugel. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006. 342.
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“ ‘A Relationship...More than Six Inches Deep’: Lust and Love in Silverberg’s Science Fiction.” Extrapolation 39 (Spring 1998): 40-51. Available online here. Cited in Andrew M. Butler. Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2012. 209. |
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“[Social Disconnection in] Yellen’s ‘Nighthawks.’ ” The Explicator 56 (Spring 1998): 148-49. Available online here. |
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“Review of Richard D. Brown. The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870.” H-Review, H-Net Reviews (Michigan State University), February 1998. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=1692. 28 paragraphs. |
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“[The Patterns of] Lowell’s ‘Patterns.’ ” The Explicator 55 (Spring 1997): 142-44. Available online here.
Available for rpt. in CourseReader: American Literature. Detroit: Gale/Cengage, 2012. Listed in Dictionary of World Biography vol. 8: 20th Century, Go-N. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Oxon, UK: Salem and Fitzroy, 1999. 2251. 2251. |
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Pre-Publication Review
Howe, Elisabeth A. Close Reading: An Introduction to Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2010.
Roberts, Edgar V. Writing about Literature 12th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2010.
Roberts, Garyn G. The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 2001.
Howe, Elisabeth A. Close Reading: An Introduction to Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2010.
Roberts, Edgar V. Writing about Literature 12th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2010.
Roberts, Garyn G. The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 2001.
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Copy-Editing Journal of Applied Sociology 15-17 (1998-2000). |
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