Tag: literary criticism

• Contemporary Reviews of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

  I’ve been perusing and enjoying The Bela Lugosi Blog all afternoon. I just discovered it today and highly recommend it to anyone interested in Bela Lugosi, Dracula, horror films, or film and television in general.  Here are some reviews written about Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, when it was first published in the UK in 1897…

  Bill Ectric

  September 14, 2016

  Archibald Constable and Company, Bram Stoker, Dracula, literary criticism, The Daily Mail, writers, writing

• The Aylett Project: Rachel Kendall Interviews Bill Ectric

  Rachel Kendall of Sein und Werden interviewed me about the new collection of essays on the work of Steve Aylett, edited by me and D. Harlan Wilson. Here’ an excerpt: Rachel Kendall: A number of writers in the anthology refer to Aylett as a writers’ writer. What does that mean to you, and do you…

  Bill Ectric

  July 14, 2016

  Alan Moore, anthology, art, bizarro, D. Harlan Wilson, literary criticism, Literary Kicks, metafiction, publishing, Rachel Kendall, Science Fiction, science fiction studies, Sein Und Werden, steve aylett

• For a New Novel: Reading Robbe-Grillet by Fred Skolnik

      Via Sein und Werden, here’s a good article by Fred Skolnik called Reading Robbe-Grillet. It begins: Alain Robbe-Grillet came to the attention of fiction readers in the 1950s with a series of extraordinary novels whose declared aim was to take the modern break with the traditional narrative a step further and help create a…

  Bill Ectric

  May 27, 2015

  Alain Robbe-Grillet, For a New Novel, Fred Skolnik, French literature, literary criticism, sein und weden, The Erasers, writing

• ‘clusterbusting hallucinations’: Speed in Steve Aylett’s Bigot Hall

  This essay by Robert Kiely will be included in the book To Unearth the Bruises Underground: The Fanatical Oeuvre of Steve Aylett (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2014), edited by D. Harlan Wilson and Bill Ectric. You can also check out Aylett’s latest project at UNBOUND. The essay begins: Speed engenders the unexpected. It is often considered a pleasure in…

  Bill Ectric

  April 15, 2014

  literary criticism, Robert Kiely, speed, steve aylett, writing

• Don Webb on R. A. Lafferty

                      Here’s a good essay on R. A. Lafferty by Don Webb on Revolution Science Fiction. Webb says, “Blurbers (those who blurb) say two contradictory things about the work of R. A. Lafferty. Often both poles will appear in the same blurb . . . He is…

  Bill Ectric

  January 20, 2014

  arcanum, Don Webb, literary criticism, R. A. Lafferty, Revolution Science Fiction, Science Fiction

• Advice from Alan Moore

   

  Bill Ectric

  September 4, 2011

  Alan Moore, comics, literary criticism, publishing, self-publishing, writing, writing tips

• Harry Potter and the Gothic Tradition

  At The Leaky Cauldron, Elizabeth Murray talks about Harry Potter and the Gothic Novel:  For as long as J.K. Rowling’s novels have been on best-seller lists and up for literary awards, reviewers, critics, and scholars have been attacking the novels and especially the adults who freely acknowledge their love of these “children’s books”. In a New…

  Bill Ectric

  July 23, 2011

  Elizabeth Murray, gothic, gothic fiction, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, literary criticism, The Leaky Cauldron

• Slipstream: Feeling Very Strange

  Coming soon: More of my notes on Thomas Pynchon, Steve Aylett, and Charles Wadsworth Camp, but check this out! From Science Fiction Studies, a fantastic Special Issue on Slipstream, edited by Rob Latham, who begins by saying: In July 1989, in his “Catscan” column in the fanzine SF Eye, Bruce Sterling published an essay entitled “Slipstream.”…

  Bill Ectric

  March 3, 2011

  Bruce Sterling, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Interstitial Fiction, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Kathy Acker, literary criticism, metafiction, New Wave Fabulism, Nova Express, Rob Latham, science fiction studies, SF Eye, slipstream, The New Weird, writing, writing skills

• Just Because You’re Seeing Things Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t There

  Lots of good study material on Nabokov’s shortest short story, Signs and Symbols. I personally think Nabokov’s general idea was this: The young man is considered insane because he fears inanimate objects, but by the end of the story, we fear the telephone because of the potential message it might convey to the elderly couple.…

  Bill Ectric

  December 16, 2009

  Alexander Dolinin, literary criticism, Nabokov, Roy Johnson, Signs and Symbols

• Washington Irving Rips Critics

  From The Literature Network, here’s an excerpt from Desultory Thoughts On Criticism, a very funny essay written in 1839 by Sleepy Hollow legend Washington Irving: “It is singular, also, to see the fickleness of the world with respect to its favorites. Enthusiasm exhausts itself, and prepares the way for dislike. The public is always for…

  Bill Ectric

  January 8, 2009

  literary criticism, The Literature Network, Washington Irving