Weird Fiction Robert E Howard, Conan Stories

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GSW English & Modern Languages

GSW English & Modern Languages

7 жыл бұрын

Lecture on Robert E. Howard's Conan cycle, particularly 'The Phoenix on the Sword' and 'The Tower of the Elephant.' Focus is on Howard's invention of the 'sword-and-sorcery' genre and the centrality of the conflict between civilization and barbarism to his work.

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@cesorcery
@cesorcery 10 ай бұрын
Wow. Your teaching style is IMPECCABLE. FLAWLESS. An English teacher that knows THE lore and does not twist or distort ANYTHING at all. Awesome EXCELLENCE.
@wheelmanjosh1982
@wheelmanjosh1982 6 жыл бұрын
I love your presentation about Conan. I wish Robert E Howard would have gotten to write more.
@daddystabz
@daddystabz 5 жыл бұрын
Fritz Leiber coined the term "Sword & Sorcery."
@rickbase6587
@rickbase6587 6 жыл бұрын
Just outstanding... And thank you so much for pronouncing Conan's name correctly.
@megamonstercookies
@megamonstercookies 6 жыл бұрын
With Conan: Exile’s success, we see that he lives on.
@DonWoschto
@DonWoschto 6 жыл бұрын
Yes. But I wish someone finally made a really good game!
@Rahab111222
@Rahab111222 5 жыл бұрын
I'm listening to this video as my Pictiish warrior builds an insulated wooden house by the northern aqueduct, before heading off to capture thralls in New Asgarth.
@goatman3057
@goatman3057 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites is the black stranger, that story rocks! I can’t believe it didn’t get published
@callmeishmael3031
@callmeishmael3031 8 ай бұрын
The first paperbacks were published by Lancer Books and had Frazetta covers with the painting going edge to edge of the cover. Ace picked up these editions and changed the cover paintings, giving them a white border.
@darkwielder2088
@darkwielder2088 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you I've been trying to figure out what I'm working with in the sword and sorcery genre. I'm trying to write stories in a way similar to the genre but change things to my tastes but still keep the same feeling.
@ShmoopyLongnuts
@ShmoopyLongnuts 6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this lecture, thanks for posting!
@darrenrenna
@darrenrenna 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome lecture Michael, really enjoying your series
@terrainmancer6272
@terrainmancer6272 6 жыл бұрын
Terrific job, sir!
@godfreyofbouillon966
@godfreyofbouillon966 5 жыл бұрын
Term was coined by Fritz Leiber not Michael Moorcock. Michael Moorcock himself preferred term "heroic fantasy" instead.
@ericadler9680
@ericadler9680 6 жыл бұрын
Great lecture, thanks
@turtleanton6539
@turtleanton6539 3 жыл бұрын
🐢approved🏆
@punkfacexo6066
@punkfacexo6066 11 ай бұрын
Hell yeah Manowar the fitness gods
@davepowell7168
@davepowell7168 2 жыл бұрын
Not strictly historical = fantasy fiction.
@Sora744
@Sora744 3 жыл бұрын
17:06 not to take the wind out of your sails but aren't Howard's version of the Picts during his Hyborian age actually analogous to the Native Americans? I thought most of the inspiration was from Texas natives like the Comanche, Qualiltecans and Apache
@Plague_Archangel
@Plague_Archangel 3 жыл бұрын
I am not that sure on this one. Perhaps minor traits were fetched out from native Americans and then added to the "Picts" as Howard wrote them, mainly towards the stories involving the "Picts" in a more "modern-era" figured in his stories. The "Picts" is a very broad subject when studying Howard's writings--as they are depicted in different stages as they evolved/devolved throughout time. The "Picts" is, arguably, the most continuous develop aspect binding Howard's universe--you can find the different stages as you go through tales of Bran, Kull, Conan. In a letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Howard wrote: ". . . to me, “Pict” must always refer to the small dark Mediterranean aborigines of Britain. This is not strange, since when I first read of these aborigines, they were referred to as Picts. But what is strange is my unflagging interest in them. I read of them in Scottish histories--merely bare mentionings, usually in disapproval." As well, it seems Howard--initially--was heavily influenced by Scott Elliot’s theories of the Picts of early England, in order to develop his "Picts" with a 'feet-in-reality', despite of the fantastic settings.
@Sora744
@Sora744 3 жыл бұрын
@@Plague_Archangel well I definitely understand that before writing his fictional hyborian "picts" Howard spent a long time reading about the real life Picts that were native to Britain but these aren't really anything like the hyborian "Picts". Real life Picts were like very pale skinned and a lot of them were had ginger hair and colored eyes. Howard's Picts are like actually closer to the descriptions of the Comanche native to northern Texas. I also think it's ironic that real life Picts were know for being short but most natives American tribes from Texas were actually known for being really tall.
@nunyabizness6595
@nunyabizness6595 Жыл бұрын
Are there any, im wanting to say, students? in the foreground. I dont hear even anyone coughing.😮😮😮
@bigmetzer
@bigmetzer 3 жыл бұрын
IT'S HIGH ADVENTURES.Movie wise.
@anonymike8280
@anonymike8280 3 жыл бұрын
I'm more worried whether there is anything worth studying in Harold Robbins, Sidney Sheldon, Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann. Oh, and never forget Grace Metalious, the creator of Peyton Place, the metaphor that will never die. When Metalious has the rich boy Rodney Harrington scores on graduation night with the millworker's daughter Betty Anderson, she pens the immortal line, "She moved her hips like an expert." Against the wishes of his mill owner father, Harrington decides to marry Betty Anderson instead of the secretly illegitmate middle class girl Allison MacKenzie, daughter of the supposedly widowed Constance MacKenzie. He enlists in the service immediately after Pearl Harbor and dies in the world war. The town is a real Peyton Place. Maybe that's why the novel is called Peyton Place. It's an event when anything becomes its own metaphor.
@iancassidy5789
@iancassidy5789 5 жыл бұрын
Armies with knights in full plate armor on horseback and longbowmen is not the Dark Ages or the Bronze Age sorry
@bobbymarcum772
@bobbymarcum772 4 жыл бұрын
A term penned by Michael M...come again?
@justinw947
@justinw947 6 жыл бұрын
why even try to explain how he dealt with race in this day and age lol people dont even want to crush their enemies anymore, let alone see then driven before them
@paysonterhune290
@paysonterhune290 6 жыл бұрын
Justin W or even hear the lamentation of their women
@VRShow
@VRShow 5 жыл бұрын
Yep they mostly act like they just want the open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at their breast and the wind in their hair...
@pavelyankouski4913
@pavelyankouski4913 2 жыл бұрын
Howard made suicide ? Woah
@thorkalel2851
@thorkalel2851 5 жыл бұрын
Crom....
@radiozelaza
@radiozelaza Жыл бұрын
ManowaR are the Kings of Metal and you should leave the hall!
@joshuaclark1930
@joshuaclark1930 5 жыл бұрын
faux
@toralm6974
@toralm6974 3 жыл бұрын
This gay don't understand Manowar. They made songs about fighting, whatever the battle is, against authorities, personal problems and you name it. Manowar do the same as Conan FIGHTING!!!!!!!
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