Paul K Alkon

Biographic Data

ID306716
NAMEPaul K Alkon
GIVEN NAMESPaul K
FAMILY NAMEAlkon
SIGNATUREALKON P K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • Science Fiction Before 1900

    Paul K Alkon, Paul AlkonBOOKScience Fiction Before 19002013

    Paul Alkon analyzes several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He places the work in context and discusses the genre and its relation to other kinds of literature.

  • Science Fiction Before 1900

    Paul K AlkonBOOKScience Fiction Before 19002013

  • Reply to I.F. Clarke

    Paul K Alkon, Paul AlkonARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2003

  • Science Fiction before 1900

    Open AccessJennifer Forrest, Paul K Alkon et al.ARTICLESouth Central Review1996

  • Science Fiction before 1900, Imagination Discovers Technology

    Marie-Hélène Huet, Paul K Alkon et al.ARTICLESubStance1996

  • Origins of Futuristic Fiction

    Carol McGuirk, Paul K Alkon et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1989

  • Origins of Futuristic Fiction

    Patrick Parrinder, Paul K Alkon et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1989

    For nearly two thousand years, future was a realm reserved for prophets, poets, astrologers, and practitioners of deliberative rhetoric. Then in 1659 French writer Jacques Guttin published his romance Epigone, which carried subtitle the history of future century. Unlike stories of space travel that were popular at time, or tales of travel to distant earthly lands which had long been a familiar literary genre, Guttin's romance described human soci…

  • Defoe and Fictional Time

    Maximillian E Novak, Paul K AlkonARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1980

    and Fictional Time shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of ti…

  • Samuel Johnson

    Paul K Alkon, Paul Alkon et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1978

  • Visual Rhetoric in 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

    Paul K Alkon, Paul AlkonARTICLECritical Inquiry1975Cited by: 1

  • The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson

    Paul K Alkon, Paul Alkon et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1971

  • Critical and Logical Concepts of Method From Addison to Coleridge

    Paul K Alkon, Paul AlkonARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1971Cited by: 1

    C OLERIDGE'S THEORY OF METHOD is at last starting to receive the attention it deserves as a crucial link between his philosophical and critical thought. J. R. de J. Jackson argues persuasively that the Treatise on together with its final revision for inclusion in Friend represents attack on empiricism and the popular experimental modes of thought for the purpose of supplanting them by Transcendentalist theories derived most immediately from Schel…

  • Behaviourism and Linguistics

    Open AccessPaul K AlkonARTICLELanguage and Speech1959References: 13

    Behaviourism provided a framework within which language could be discussed without presupposing words to be the vehicles of “thought.” Consequently behaviourism created a more favourable intellectual milieu for modern linguistics than did the earlier school of structural psychology. To appreciate the significance of this shift in outlook, one must trace the influence of philosophical empiricism upon the development of experimental psychology, for…

  • Joshua Steele and the Melody of Speech

    Open AccessPaul K AlkonARTICLELanguage and Speech1959References: 5

    In 1776 Joshua Steele published a work describing and illustrating his system for transcribing the suprasegmental aspects of speech. Despite certain shortcomings, that method allowed transcriptions of relative duration, pitch, and clause terminals to be recorded as accurately as those sound attributes could be observed. The work was discussed, and its utility investigated at the time, particularly by a group corresponding on linguistic issues wit…