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Preface
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Introduction
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Part One: The Literary Conan
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"Hyborian Age Archaeology: Unearthing
Historical and Anthropological Foundations" by Jeffrey Shanks
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"Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic
and Epistolary Origins of the Character and His World" by Frank Coffman
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"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Women: Gender Dynamics in the Hyborian World" by Winter Elliott
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"Robert E. Howard's Barbarian
and the Western: A Study of Conan Through the West and the Western Hero"
by Daniel Weiss
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"Canaan Lies Beyond the Black River:
Howard's Dark Rhetoric of the Contact Zone" by Paul Shovlin
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"Statistics in the Hyborian Age: An
Introduction to Stylometry" by Daniel M. Look
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Part Two: The Cultural Conan
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"Arnold at the Gates: Subverting
Star Persona in Conan the Barbarian" by Nicky Falkof
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"'Hot Avatars' in 'Gay Gear': The Virtual
Male Body as Site of Conflicting Desires in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures"
by James Kelley
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"Fandom and the Nostalgia of Masculinity"
by Stephen Wall
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"'Barbarian Heroing' and Its Parody:
New Perspectives on Masculinity" by Imola Bulgozdi
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About the Contributors
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Index
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Notes
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Edited by Jonas Prida
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Contains many excerpts from REH prose and
poetry.
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