Tag: edgar rice burroughs
John Barth, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter, and the “Masculine Narrative”
TweetIn this, the season of John Carter, I have found my thoughts occasionally returning to the year 1976 when I was a graduate student in a seminar on the Modern […]
Could Disney's John Carter help inspire a comeback of classic adventure lit for kids and young adults?
TweetThe list of major creative minds who, in their boyhood, discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs’ world of Barsoom and were inspired by it are legion: Ray Bradbury, Arthur Clark, Carl Sagan, […]
Carl Sagan on the magical Mars of John Carter and Edgar Rice Burroughs
TweetHere’s a wonderful 3 minutes from Carl Sagan on how as a young boy he was mesmerized by the Mars of John Carter, Tars Tarkas, and Dejah Thoris. The reverence […]
This is why we "Erbophiles" are so damned excited at what's coming on March 9
TweetWhen you’re spent your whole loving a secret liteary (or maybe not so) treasure that you’d like to share, but you don’t quite know how to — and then something […]
Who is John Carter?
TweetPam Harrison of the Louisvill Comics Examiner has a great article up entitled “Who is John Carter”. Like the rest of the JC universe she’s in a “can’t wait” mode […]
Tars Tarkas, John Carter's Fierce Ally as played by Willem Dafoe in Disney's "John Carter"
TweetThough a great warrior and leader among his people (the brutal and mirthless Tharks) he possesses a sense of compassion and empathy uncharacteristic of his race.
Project Gutenberg Text of "A Princess of Mars" — the 1912 Novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
TweetOOOPS….this page has moved to a cool new home: PRINCESS OF MARS FULL NOVEL
Roy Krenkel’s evocative Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace paperback covers
TweetA disciple of J.Allen St. John, Franklin Booth, William Walcot and Norman Lindsay, Roy Krenkel was responsible for vividly evocative cover art for the ACE 1960’s Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks. […]