Citations:Bangsian

English citations of Bangsian

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• 1986, David Roberts, Moments of doubt and other mountaineering writings:

  The person who put together this remarkable packages […] was Richard Bangs, co-founder and president of Sobek. […] "Bangsian Hype" is a term in local usage in Angels Camp, California, where Sobek is quartered.

• 1987, Christopher Redmond, Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes: Victorian America meets Arthur Conan Doyle:

  An extensive study of [John Kendrick] Bangs's Sherlockian writings is Jon L. Lellenberg's article "Bangsian Sherlockiania," Baker Street Miscellanea 39 (autumn 1984), pp. 31-36.

• 1999, John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, "Bangs, John Kendrick":

  Though the idea that the dead might be imagined as conversing together in Hell has a provenance extending back at least as far as Lucian's Dialogues with the dead (cAD150), what became known as Bangsian fantasy […] established an amicable club-story atmosphere and implicated its eminent dead souls--some historical, some fictional […] --in prankish escapades.

• 2000, Jim DeRogatis, Let it blurt: the life and times of Lester Bangs, America's greatest rock critic:

  When she ran out to the store for a break from a difficult column, he finished it for her in a typical Bangsian style.

• circa 2005, Ruskin Bond, Poetry Magic 3

  He was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian Fantasy, the school of fantasy-writing that set the plot wholly or partially in the after life.