LITR 5738: Literature of Space & Exploration


Index to Research Reviews presented by Students

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  Research: I. S. MacLaren, "Exploration/Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Author" International Journal of Canadian Studies 5 (1992): 39-68, esp. 39-43.

Reviewer: Craig Sprowl

Discussion notes recorder: John Eberhart

22 January


  Research: Background research on the Wilkes and Reynolds Antarctic expeditions of 1838-40.

Reviewer: Samantha McDonald

Discussion notes recorder: Marion F. Carpenter Jr.

(29 January)


  Research: Bruce Greenfield, "The Rhetoric of British and American Narratives of Exploration." Dalhousie Review 65.1 (Spring 1985): 56-65. (instructor can provide copy)

Reviewer: John Eberhart

Discussion notes recorder: John Granahan

(5 February)


  Research: A. Alvarez, "Ice Capades" (review of several books on polar exploration) New York Review of Books (9 August 2001): 14-1 7.

Reviewer: Aaron Van Baalen

Discussion notes recorder: Rex Perrard

(12 February)


  Research: Robyn Davidson, "Against Travel Writing" Granta 72 (winter 2000): 247-54.

Reviewer: Joanna Opaskar

Discussion notes recorder: Sonia Hernandez

(26 February)


  Research: Richard Dale Mullen, "The Undisciplined Imagination: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Lowellian Mars." SF: The Other Side of Realism: Essays on Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas D. Clareson. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971; Richard Dale Mullen,  "The Prudish Prurience of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs." Riverside Quarterly 6 (1974): 134-46. (copies available from instructor)

Reviewer: John Granahan

Discussion notes recorder: Craig Sprowl

(12 March)