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Research
review: A. Alvarez, "Ice Capades"
(review of several books on polar exploration)
New York Review of Books (9 August 2001): 14-17. Research
review: I. S. MacLaren, "Exploration/Travel
Literature and the Evolution of the Author" International
Journal of Canadian Studies 5 (1992): 39-68, esp. 39-43. Research
review: Sheila Nickerson, "The Arctic in
Literature," and Elle Tracy, "The Southern End of the Earth: Antarctic
Literature," Literature of Nature: An
International Sourcebook, ed Patrick D. Murphy (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,
1998) (handout) Research
review: Robyn Davidson, "Against Travel
Writing" Granta 72 (winter 2000):
247-54. Research review: 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) Research review:
Report on Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods
of Mars (sequel to A Princess of Mars).
Include some critical reaction, perhaps from online reviews. Research review:
review of Joseph Tabbi, “Mailer’s
Psychology of Machines.” Postmodern Sublime. Ithaca NY: Cornell UP,
1995; other critical selections on Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon (copies
available from instructor) Research review:
Report on science fiction / fantasy as genre(s). Research
review: Ronald Weber, "The View from Space:
Notes on Space Exploration and Recent Writing" Georgia
Review 33 (1979): 280-296. Research Review:
Jesuit missions to New World and Asia (The Jesuit Relations) Research review:
review of web reviews and/or other book reviews of The Sparrow and Children of
God (consult with instructor for some copies) Research review:
Report on Children of God (sequel to The
Sparrow)
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