{"id":51694,"date":"2022-01-04T03:11:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=51694"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:57:44","slug":"sword-and-sorcery-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/sword-and-sorcery-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sword-and-Sorcery Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>DMR<\/em> Brian Murphy offers a useful new article <a href=\"https:\/\/dmrbooks.com\/test-blog\/2021\/12\/24\/things-that-are-undone-and-ought-not-to-be-a-sword-and-sorcery-studies-wish-list\">&#8220;Things That Are Undone and Ought Not To Be: A Sword-and-Sorcery Studies Wish List&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A good &#8216;Not Conan or R.E. Howard&#8217; critical survey of the genre in pre-PC comics would certainly be welcome, ideally including British (<em>Karl the Viking<\/em> etc) and European titles (e.g. in editor Toutain&#8217;s <em>Heavy-Metal<\/em>-alike magazines). And a lavish coffee-table book of related pinball-table art, perhaps with a DVD slotted in the back with the playable pinball table ROMs on it.<\/p>\n<p>To his list I&#8217;d add:<\/p>\n<p>* a survey-study of vintage paperback cover-art (as published) and its artists, though if the permissions could be obtained is perhaps doubtful now and one would have to rely on &#8216;fair use&#8217; for covers;<\/p>\n<p>* a close study of the curiously tepid cultural receptions and contexts of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> in its &#8216;fallow period&#8217; between publication and mass take-up. Say 1952-72, to add two years of run-up and take-off at either end;<\/p>\n<p>* perhaps a study of the uses \/ re-workings sword-and-sorcery authors made of traditional works which were (by their time) effectively in the public domain (folklore, semi-fictional history, Arthur, Norse tales, Arabian Nights, the Northern fairy-tales, Ovid and ancient myth etc). They too had a &#8216;public domain&#8217;, though it was different than ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At DMR Brian Murphy offers a useful new article &#8220;Things That Are Undone and Ought Not To Be: A Sword-and-Sorcery &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/sword-and-sorcery-studies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-reh","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53784,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51694\/revisions\/53784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}