The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith (HB)
Criticism in the Bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith
Edited by: Scott Connors
Hippocampus Press, US: (Jul 2006)
Hardcover ISBN 0976159244 $49.95
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Scott Connors
- “The Centaur” by Clark Ashton Smith
- Klarkash-Ton and “Greek” by Donald Sidney-Fryer
- Contemporary Reviews of Clark Ashton Smith
- Eblis in Bakelite by James Blish
- James Blish versus Clark Ashton Smith; to Wit, the Young Turk Syndrome by Donald Sidney-Fryer
- The Last Romantic by S J Sackett
- Communicable Mysteries: The Last True Symbolist by Fred Chappell
- What Happens in The Hashish-Eater? by S T Joshi
- The Babel of Visions: The Structuration of Clark Ashton Smith’s The Hashish-Eater by Dan Clore
- Clark Ashton Smith’s “Nero” by Carl Jay Buchanan
- Satan Speaks: A Reading of “Satan Unrepentant” by Phillip A Ellis
- Lands Forgotten or Unfound: The Prose Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith by S T Joshi
- Out the Human Aquarium: The Fantastic Imagination of Clark Ashton Smith by Brian Stableford
- Gesturing Toward the Infinite by Scott Connors
- Clark Ashton Smith: A Note on the Aesthetics of Fantasy by Charles K Wolfe
- Fantasy and Decadence in the Work of Clark Ashton Smith by Laurie Guillaud
- Humor in Hyperspace: Smith’s Uses of Satire by John Kipling Hitz
- The Song of the Necromancer: “Loss” in Clark Ashton Smith’s Fiction by Steve Behrends
- Brave World Old and New: The Atlantis Theme in the Poetry and Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith by Donald Sidney-Fryer
- Coming in from the Cold: Incursons of “Outsideness” in Hyperborea by Steven Tompkins
- As Shadows Wait Upon the Sun: Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique by Jim Rockhill
- Into the Woods: The Human Geography of Averoigne by Stefan Dziemianowicz
- Sorcerous Style: Clark Ashton Smith's The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies by Peter H Goodrich
- Loss and Recuperation: A Model for Reading Clark Ashton Smith’s “Xeethra” by Dan Clore
- “Life, Love, and the Clemency of Death”: A Reexamination of Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Isle of the Torturers” by Scott Connors
- An Annotated Chronology of the Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith by Steve Behrends
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index