What is included with this book?
Preface | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
The Literary Conan | |
Hyborian Age Archaeology: Unearthing Historical and Anthropological Foundations | p. 13 |
Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins of the Character and His World | p. 35 |
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Women: Gender Dynamics in the Hyborian World | p. 51 |
Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and the Western: A Study of Conan Through the West and the Western Hero | p. 70 |
Canaan Lies Beyond the Black River: Howard's Dark Rhetoric of the Contact Zone | p. 91 |
Statistics in the Hyborian Age: An Introduction to Stylometry | p. 103 |
The Cultural Conan | |
Arnold at the Gates: Subverting Star Persona in Conan the Barbarian | p. 123 |
"Hot Avatars" in "Gay Gear": The Virtual Male Body as Site of Conflicting Desires in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures | p. 144 |
Fandom and the Nostalgia of Masculinity | p. 174 |
"Barbarian Heroing" and Its Parody: New Perspectives on Masculinity | p. 193 |
About the Contributors | p. 213 |
Index | p. 215 |
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