Thursday, April 7, 2016

Barbaric Wonder - Robert E. Howard Panel, ICFA 2016
Now online!

Barbaric Wonder: Robert E. Howard and the Evolution of Sword and Sorcery Discussion panel from the 2016 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, with Howard scholars and experts Jeffrey Shanks, Jonas Prida, Daniel Look, Dierk Gunther, and Frank Coffman. 

The panelists discuss the development of the sword and sorcery sub-genre for which Howard is often credited as the progenitor, Howard's primary heroic protagonists Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane and Bran Mak Morn, and the influence of Howard's sword and sorcery on later fantasy from Dungeons and Dragons to Game of Thrones.


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