Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres

On-line Essays and Excerpts


Vol. 1, No. 1: Premiere Issue

Diverse Members of the Editorial Board
"'Paraliterature' and The Mandate of Paradoxa"

Vol. 3, No. 1-2: Where's Love Gone? Transformations in the Romance Genre

Beth Rapp Young
"Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance" [reprinted at the Romance Novel Studies Center on-line]

Gabriele Linke
"Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances" [reprinted at the Romance Novel Studies Center on-line]


Vol. 3, No. 3-4: "The Return of the Uncanny"

Michael Arnzen
"Introduction: The Return of the Uncanny"

Lesley Stern
Online excerpt from "I Think Sebastian, Therefore I ... Somersault: Film and the Uncanny" [reprinted in Australia Humanities Review].

Vol. 4, No. 10: "Metafictions: Stories of Reading"

Brian Attebery
"Introduction: Metafictions: Stories of Reading"

Vol. 4, No. 11: "The Future of Narrative"

Lance Olsen
"Introduction: The Future of Narrative: Speculative Criticism"

Michael Joyce
"Ordinary Fiction"

No. 17: "Horror"

Steffen Hantke
"Shudder As We Think: Reflections on Horror and/or Criticism"


No. 18: "Fifties Fictions"

Josh Lukin
"Under Gray Flannel: Introduction to Fifties Fictions"


No. 20: "Terrains Vagues"

Jay McRoy
"Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Severed Heads": A Review of Hal Jaffe's 15 Serial Killers (.html web format)

"Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Severed Heads": A Review of Hal Jaffe's 15 Serial Killers (Adobe .pdf format)


No. 21: "Ursula K. Le Guin"

Sylvia Kelso
"Boldly to Re-Venture: New Writing on the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin" (Introduction to Paradoxa 21) (Adobe .pdf format)

"Boldly to Re-Venture: New Writing on the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin" (Introduction to Paradoxa 21) (HTML format)


No. 22: "Three Asias"

Takayuki Tatsumi
"Introduction to Three Asias—Japan" (Adobe .pdf format)

Jina Kim
"Introduction to Three Asias—S. Korea" (Adobe .pdf format)

Zhang Zhen
"Introduction to Three Asias—China" (Adobe .pdf format)


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