West Virginia University Philological Papers articles

Recent articles from West Virginia University Philological Papers

Introduction.
September 22, 2006... This present volume featuring refereed articles on the theme, "Imaginary Places," originally delivered at the thirtieth annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, September 15-17, 2005, reveals, I think, some of the many ways in which to interpret the challenge set before our participants....

Paradise Imagined *.
September 22, 2006... VENICE When you fly into Venice, you arrive at a new airport named after the city's most famous son, Marco Polo, the thirteenth-century traveler. Then, as you cross the lagoon by motorboat to your hotel, you see Venice rising from the water, a mirage, Shangri La, Bali Hai, Paradise...

Heroic matriculation: the academies of Spenser, Lewis, and Rowling.(Edmund Spenser, J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... C.N. Manlove in Modern Fantasy: Five Studies defines fantasy as a "fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of the supernatural... [which] can produce an imprint on our imaginations deep enough to give it a measure of truth or reality" (12). The definition...

Terrifying beauty: the imaginary world of Garrett Serviss.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Lunar mountains glittering with diamonds and asteroids formed of gold. Cities bathed in light and forests soaring a thousand feet above red vegetation. These splendors astonish Thomas Edison and the crews of his spaceships on their voyage through space to Mars. (1) Six weeks after the...

A princess of where? Burroughs's imaginary lack of place.(Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars in 1911, and All-Story Magazine published it as a pulp serial in 1912. The novel tells the story of John Carter's journey to the fourth planet, which the natives call Barsoom. At the time of the novel's publication, manned space flight was an...