Murphy, Patrick D
Entry updated 25 September 2012. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor, Translator.
(? - ) US author, editor and academic critic, Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mythic and Fantastic: Gary Snyder's 'Mountains and Rivers without End'" in Extrapolation for Winter 1985, and has also appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies. With Wu Dingbo he translated and edited Science Fiction from China (anth 1989), a useful and important English-language sampler which contains eight sf stories by Chinese authors and a chronological Bibliography. Relevant edited Anthologies of critical essays are The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre (anth 1989) with Vernon Hyles, including examinations of the Poetry of Ursula K Le Guin, C S Lewis and Edgar Allan Poe, the first two of these by Murphy himself; and the Theatre-centred Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (anth 1992), in which individual playwrights discussed include H Leivick, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and W B Yeats. [DRL]
Patrick D Murphy
born USA
works as editor
- The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989) with Vernon Hyles [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy series: hb/Mary Seehausen Bresler]
- Science Fiction from China (New York: Praeger, 1989) with Wu Dingbo Dingbo [anth: trans by the editors: hb/Jennifer A Damsky]
- Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992) [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy series: hb/Mary Seehausen Bresler]
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