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• The monomyth in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun

  Author:Donald PalumboFrom:Extrapolation (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 200523,626 words Article A single, continuous narrative initially published in four volumes--The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981), and The Citadel of the Autarch (1982)--and...

• Reiterated Plots and Themes in the Robot Novels: Getting away with Murder and Overcoming Programming

  From: Foundation

  Autumn 200010,802 words Critical essay Just as the Robot stories and novels exhibit the same chaos-theory concepts as does the Foundation series, but in a somewhat different way, so too do the Robot novels exhibit the same fractal quality of duplication...

• Singer's 'Yentl': The Fantastic Case of a Perplexed Soul

  Editor:Donald PalumboFrom: Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

  19883,619 words Critical essay [(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Schanfield compares Singer' short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" to the film adaptation, Yentl, arguing that the element of fantasy in Singer's story is lost in the film's...

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  From: A Dune Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert’s Original Six Novels

  201826,706 words Critical essay [(essay date 2018) In the following essay, Palumbo examines the deep interrelationship between form and content in the Dune series (1965-85) by exploring the elements of chaos theory, fractal structure, and ecology....