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David Lodge is my favourite comic novelist. Being a comic novelist is evidently a good qualification for writing enjoyable literary criticism.

In Rob Latham’s Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014) the field of ecocriticism was conspicuous by its absence. That gap could have been nicely filled by Gerry Canavan’s Introduction to Green Planets, or indeed Latham’s own contribution to this book. Ecocriticism and SF may have been reluctant bedmates, but in this book we see an explicit insemination of SF criticism with ecocritical thinking. Not only that, Canavan argues that science fiction itself is an ideal means of

<p>In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/in-the-chinks-of-the-world-machine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Raylene Ramsay’s monograph The Literatures of the French Pacific: Reconfiguring Hybridity has a misleading title. The book deals not with the French Pacific as a whole, but specifically with the French-speaking country of New Caledonia. I can only think this &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/the-literatures-of-new-caledonia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is a landmark of literary criticism to which I found my way via its influence on the Tolkien scholarship of Tom Shippey and Margaret Anne Doody’s superb book The True Story of the Novel. Frye’s &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/myths-genres-and-forms-in-northrop-fryes-anatomy-of-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>