Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1987-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780879723637

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More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.

Yesterday's Faces

Yesterday's Faces
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780879725143

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In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1984
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780879722623

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The second volume within this series presents more than fifty series characters within pulp fiction, selected to represent four popular story types from the 1907-1939 pulps--scientific detectives, occult and psychic investigators, jungle men, and adventurers in interplanetary romance. Some characters--Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Craig Kennedy, Anthony (Buck) Rogers--became internationally known. Others are now almost forgotten, except by collectors and specialists.

H.P. Lovecraft: Reanimator Tales

H.P. Lovecraft: Reanimator Tales
Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Caliber Comics
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Contained within are the H.P. Lovecraft tales originally known as Grewsome Tales and later dubbed Herbert West - Reanimator are presented here in newly edited versions. In addition, award winning writer Steven Philip Jones provides an all new Reanimator tale plus the script for the audio version of From the Dark. As a bonus, an essay written by Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature is presented in this collection. A must gift for any H.P. Lovecraft fan or collector.

Yesterday's Faces: Violent lives

Yesterday's Faces: Violent lives
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1983
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Adventure, suspense, above all violence--these filled the lives of the characters brightening the pulp magazines. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, these magazines of popular fiction offered hard-paced entertainment and high wonder. In "Violent Lives" Robert Sampson calls up a vivid selection of adventurers, spies, and warriors.

The Clive Cussler Adventures

The Clive Cussler Adventures
Author: Steven Philip Jones
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476615217

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The author of more than 50 books--125 million copies in print--Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the sea-loving protagonist of 22 of Cussler's novels, remains among the most popular and influential adventure series heroes of the past half-century. This first critical review of Cussler's work features an overview of Pitt and the supporting characters and other heroes, an examination of Cussler's themes and influences, a review of his most important adventures, such as Raise the Titanic! and Iceberg, and a look at adaptations of his work in other media. Cussler joins the pantheon of such as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming, and this overdue volume demonstrates that beneath Cussler's immense popularity lies a literary depth that well merits scholarly attention.

Faulkner and History

Faulkner and History
Author: Jay Watson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496810007

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Contributions by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jordan Burke, Rebecca Bennett Clark, James C. Cobb, Anna Creadick, Colin Dayan, Wai Chee Dimock, Sarah E. Gardner, Hannah Godwin, Brooks E. Hefner, Andrew B. Leiter, Sean McCann, Conor Picken, Natalie J. Ring, Calvin Schermerhorn, and Jay Watson William Faulkner remains a historian’s writer. A distinguished roster of historians are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner’s relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of Faulkner’s work. Contributors draw on the history of development in the Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history of modern childhood, and the literary histories of antislavery writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner’s work. Others in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner’s fiction for such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long-recognized elements of the Mississippian’s artistic vision.

Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960

Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960
Author: Nathan Vernon Madison
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-02-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476601364

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In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World War I but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America's "new" enemies, both following U.S. entry into the Second World War and during the early stages of the Cold War. Anti-foreign narratives showed a growing emphasis on ideological, as opposed to racial or ethnic, differences--and early signs of the coming "multiculturalism"--indicating that pure racism was not the sole reason for nativist rhetoric in popular literature. The process of change in America's nativist sentiments, so virulent after the First World War, are revealed by the popular, inexpensive escapism of the time, pulp magazines and comic books.

Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous horizons

Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous horizons
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1983
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.