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Robert Ervin Howard ( Peaster, 22 gennaio 1906 – Cross Plains, 11 giugno 1936) è stato uno scrittore statunitense . Viene considerato uno dei massimi esponenti della narrativa pulp del Periodo interbellico, in quanto importante autore di letteratura dell'orrore, grande interprete del romanzo d'avventura e iniziatore del genere heroic fantasy .
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in Texas.
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- Robert Ervin Howard, January 22, 1906, Peaster, Texas, U.S.
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Language and word use
Howard used an economy of words to sketch out scenes in his stories; his ability to do so has been attributed to his skill with, and experience of, both tall tales and poetry. Howard's stories have a sense of authenticity and a natural deft use of language due to his investment in the narrative. The trait is considered the mark of a master in oral storytelling. Some of his stories, such as "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune", have been described as prose poems in their vigorous and rhythmic writing....
Traditional devices
Howard incorporated elements of existing narrative traditions in his writing. As well as frequent use of standard similes, he used Homeric similes, or elaborate and detailed comparisons. For example: "As a panther strikes down a bull moose at bay, so he plunged under the bludgeoning arms and drove the crescent blade to the hilt under the spot where a human's heart would be." Another element borrowed from the classical tradition is the use of epithets; the most obvious of these is "The Cimmeri...
Rhetorical devices
Howard had a grounding in rhetorical techniques, either through self-study or formal schooling, that he used in his writing. A favourite device was the tricolon, a sentence with three clearly defined parts. This was often used in combination with asyndeton and polysyndeton, in which conjunctions are either removed entirely or repeated in close succession. For example, the line "fold after slimy fold knotting about him, twisting, crushing, killing him," is, in the highlighted text, an asyndeti...
Civilization and barbarism
Direct experience of the oil booms in early twentieth century Texas tainted Howard's view of civilization. The benefits of progress came with lawlessness and corruption. One of the most common themes in Howard's writing is based on his view of history, a repeating pattern of civilizations reaching their peak, becoming decadent, decaying and then being conquered by another people. Many of his works are set in the period of decay or among the ruins the dead civilization leaves behind.Despite th...
Individualism
The Kull stories in particular contain a constant theme of the confining nature of laws and customs. In "Sword Woman", the first of the Dark Agnes stories, Howard "was writing about rebellion and about throwing out the rules of society to make an ideal life for oneself." Agnes rebels against the social order of the day and refuses to be kept in her place.Biographer Mark Finndescribes the protofeminist Dark Agnes stories as "practically autobiographical" and believes that the use of the first-...
Existentialism
Though Howard died in 1936, before existentialism was defined, it was popularised in the United States by Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness(1943), his philosophy, as shown through his works, is a close parallel. Howard's most famous character, Conan, is an existentialist character who defines his own purpose and shapes his own destiny. Conan does not have a noble destiny; in contrast to much fantasy fiction, he is not of noble birth, he is not fulfilling any prophecy, he is not the "ch...
Burke, Rusty, "A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard", The Robert E. Howard United Press Association, archived from the originalon 2011-09-29Coffman, Frank (2006), "Texas Talespinner: Robert E. Howard's Way with Words", in Szumskyj, Benjamin (ed.), Two-Gun Bob, New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, pp. 69–96, ISBN 0-9771734-5-3Eng, Steve (2000) [orig. 1984], "Barbarian Bard: The Poetry of Robert E. Howard", in Herron, Don (ed.), The Dark Barbarian, Berkeley Heights, NJ: Wildside Press, pp. 23–64, ISBN 1-58715-203-7Finn, Mark (2006), Blood & Thunder, Austin, TX: Monkeybrain, Inc., ISBN 1-932265-21-XRobert E. Howard bibliography. A list of prose works by Robert E. Howard. The works are sorted by genre, by series and then alphabetically. Untitled works and fragments (incomplete and unfinished works) are listed separately by their opening line.
Robert E. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian, has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
Robert E. Howard created the character in 1932 for a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine. The earliest appearance of a Robert E. Howard character named Conan was that of a black-haired barbarian with heroic attributes in the 1931 short story "People of the Dark".
Robert Ervin Howard è stato uno scrittore statunitense. Viene considerato uno dei massimi esponenti della narrativa pulp del Periodo interbellico, in quanto importante autore di letteratura dell'orrore, grande interprete del romanzo d'avventura e iniziatore del genere heroic fantasy.
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