The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith (HB)

Criticism Publications Index

Edited by: Scott Connors

Hippocampus Press, US: (Jul 2006)

Hardcover ISBN 0976159244 $49.95

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Scott Connors
• “The Centaur” by Clark Ashton Smith
• Klarkash-Ton and “Greek” by Donald Sidney-Fryer
• Contemporary Reviews of Clark Ashton Smith
• Eblis in Bakelite by James Blish
• James Blish versus Clark Ashton Smith; to Wit, the Young Turk Syndrome by Donald Sidney-Fryer
• The Last Romantic by S J Sackett
• Communicable Mysteries: The Last True Symbolist by Fred Chappell
• What Happens in The Hashish-Eater? by S T Joshi
• The Babel of Visions: The Structuration of Clark Ashton Smith’s The Hashish-Eater by Dan Clore
• Clark Ashton Smith’s “Nero” by Carl Jay Buchanan
• Satan Speaks: A Reading of “Satan Unrepentant” by Phillip A Ellis
• Lands Forgotten or Unfound: The Prose Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith by S T Joshi
• Out the Human Aquarium: The Fantastic Imagination of Clark Ashton Smith by Brian Stableford
• Gesturing Toward the Infinite by Scott Connors
• Clark Ashton Smith: A Note on the Aesthetics of Fantasy by Charles K Wolfe
• Fantasy and Decadence in the Work of Clark Ashton Smith by Laurie Guillaud
• Humor in Hyperspace: Smith’s Uses of Satire by John Kipling Hitz
• The Song of the Necromancer: “Loss” in Clark Ashton Smith’s Fiction by Steve Behrends
• Brave World Old and New: The Atlantis Theme in the Poetry and Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith by Donald Sidney-Fryer
• Coming in from the Cold: Incursons of “Outsideness” in Hyperborea by Steven Tompkins
• As Shadows Wait Upon the Sun: Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique by Jim Rockhill
• Into the Woods: The Human Geography of Averoigne by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• Sorcerous Style: Clark Ashton Smith's The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies by Peter H Goodrich
• Loss and Recuperation: A Model for Reading Clark Ashton Smith’s “Xeethra” by Dan Clore
• “Life, Love, and the Clemency of Death”: A Reexamination of Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Isle of the Torturers” by Scott Connors
• An Annotated Chronology of the Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith by Steve Behrends
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

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