Fritz Leiber
Critical Essays
Edited by
Benjamin
Szumskyj
Foreword by John Pelan ISBN
978-0-7864-2972-1
notes, bibliographies, indexes
215pp.
softcover
2008
Temporarily out of stock while McFarland awaits the reprint - accepting backorders
Description
This essay collection fills a critical gap by examining Fritz Leiber and his work from an academic perspective. Examined here are the role of civilization in Leiber’s work; the evolution of Our Lady of Darkness; the concept of time; death, rebirth and existentialism; feline characters; sexual desire; his gothic and weird tales; eccentricity in Leiber’s poems; the theme of power in the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser adventures; connecting threads, and important contrasts between Leiber and Lovecraft; and biblical influence.
About the Author
Benjamin Szumskyj, a private high school teacher and qualified library technician, has edited anthologies and essay collections on such authors as Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Thomas Harris and William Peter Blatty. He is also the editor of Studies in Fantasy Literature and Studies in Australian Weird Fiction. He lives in Melville, Western Australia.
Other Book(s) by Benjamin Szumskyj Available from McFarland:
Dissecting Hannibal Lecter
American Exorcist
The Man Who Collected Psychos
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