Of Modern Dragons and Other Essays on Genre Fiction (Genre by John Lennard
By John Lennard
John Lennard was once Professor of English and American Literature on the college of the West Indies--Mona, from 2004 to 2009, and has additionally aught in Cambridge and London. His books comprise ‘But I Digress’ (Clarendon, 1991), ‘The Poetry guide’ (OUP, 1996; 2/e 2005), ‘The Drama instruction manual’ (with Mary Luckhurst, OUP, 2002), ‘Of intercourse and Faerie’ (HEB 2010), Literature Insights on ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear’ (HEB, 2007, 2010), and style Fiction Sightlines on Octavia Butler, Reginald Hill, Ian McDonald, Walter Mosley, and Tamora Pierce (all HEB, 2007). he's basic Editor of the HEB style Fiction Sightlines and Monographs series.
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“Wonderful stuff” —Ian McDonald.
“It is … a big thrill for a author whilst a person rather ‘gets it’ approximately what she’s attempting to do”—Tamora Pierce.
“On approximately each web page is a provocatively compressed insight”—Steven Poole, The Guardian.
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