Kevin Boon (Associate Professor of English)
Books
Boon, K.A. (2008). George Orwell: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (Writers and Their Works). New York: Benchmark Books.
Boon, K.A. (2008). Script culture and the American screenplay. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press.
Boon, K.A. (2007). Ernest Hemingway: The sun also rises and other works. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish.
Boon, K.A. (2006). F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writers and Their Works). New York: Benchmark Books.
Boon, K.A. (2002). The human genome project: What does decoding DNA mean for us? (Issues in Focus). Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers.
Boon, K.A. (2001). At millennium's end: new essays on the work of Kurt Vonnegut. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Boon, K.A. (1999). Absolute zero: a novel performance in bits. New York: Fort Schuyler Press.
Boon, K.A. (1999). Reading the sea: new essays on sea literature. New York: Fort Schuyler Press.
Boon, K.A. (1998). An interpretive reading of Virginia Woolf's The waves. Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press.
Boon, K.A. (1997). Chaos theory and the interpretation of literary texts: the case of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press.
Articles
Boon, K.A. (2008). The Screenplay, Imagism, and Modern Aesthetics. Literature Film Quarterly, 36(4), 259-271.
Boon, K.A. (2007). Ontological anxiety made flesh: the zombie in literature, film and culture. In N. Scott (Ed.), Monsters and the monstrous: Myths and metaphors of enduring evil (pp. 33-43). New York: Rodopi.
Boon, K.A. (2008). “The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Modern Age.” The Monstrous IV. Ed. Paul Yoder and Peter Mario Kreuter. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Boon, K.A. (2006) "Episteme-ology of Science Fiction." Rpt. Anatomy of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald Morse. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006: 10-25. Original Publication Info: "Episteme-ology of Science Fiction." The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.(2001) and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 2.4 (2001): 359-74. (joint European and American publication)
Boon, K.A. (2005). Heroes, Metanarratives, and the Paradox of Masculinity in Contemporary Western Culture. Journal of Men’s Studies 13(3), 301-312.
Boon, K.A. (2003). Men and the Nostalgia for Violence: Culture and Culpability in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club. Journal of Men’s Studies 11(3), 267-276.
Boon, K.A. (2003). Gilbert Sorrentino: Cataloging The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 23.1 (January 2003): 108-125. Rpt. Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, by Gilbert Sorrentino. Ed. David Andrews. Series Ed. Robert McLaughlin. Dalkey Archive Press. Rpt. (Fall 2003).
Boon, K.A. (2001). "Vonnegut Films." (With David Pringle). In At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut (pp.167-196). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Boon, K.A. (2001). The Poetics and the Screenplay: Revisiting Aristotle. Creative Screenwriting, 8(3), 67-79.
Boon, K.A. (1999). In Defense of John Carpenter's Thing. Creative Screenwriting, 66-74.
Boon, K.A. (1998). Dialogue, Discourse, and Dialectics: The Rhetoric of Capitalism in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. Creative Screenwriting, 5(3), 50-57.
Boon, K.A. (1997 Summer). In Debt to Dashiell: John Huston's Adaptation of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. Creative Screenwriting, 4(2), 99-115.
Boon, K.A. (1999 March). Publishing Group Projects: Decentering the Writing Classroom. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 26(3), 262-268.
Boon, K.A. (1997 Spring). Scripting Gender: Writing Difference. Creative Screenwriting. 4(1), 107-123.
Boon, K.A. (1994 Winter). Stoning Tarantino: Oliver Stone's (re)Vision of Quentin Tarantino's Natural Born Killers. Creative Screenwriting, 1(4), 84-99.
Boon, K.A. (1993 Spring). Temple Defiled: The Brainwashing of Temple Drake in Faulkner's Sanctuary. Faulkner Journal, 6(2), 33-50.
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