LITR 5738: Literature of Space & Exploration


Index to Student Research Reviews 2004

Research review: A. Alvarez, "Ice Capades" (review of several books on polar exploration) New York Review of Books (9 August 2001): 14-17.
Reviewer: Jamie Davis


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.
Reviewer: Simone Rieck


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)
Reviewer: Chris Lucas


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


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)

Reviewer: Deshon Smith


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.
Reviewer: Marc Schooley


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)
Reviewer: Laurie Eckhart


Research review: Report on science fiction / fantasy as genre(s).
Reviewer: Rebecca Wilson


Research review: Ronald Weber, "The View from Space: Notes on Space Exploration and Recent Writing" Georgia Review 33 (1979): 280-296.
Reviewer: James Hood


Research Review: Jesuit missions to New World and Asia (The Jesuit Relations)
Reviewer: Theresa Matthews


Research review: review of web reviews and/or other book reviews of The Sparrow and Children of God (consult with instructor for some copies)
Reviewer: Kristy Pawlak


Research review: Report on Children of God (sequel to The Sparrow)
Reviewer: Ashley Salter