At 10:19 PM 12/1/00, you wrote:
>Michael Martinez wrote:
> >
> > Quite true, but a lot of Burroughs' books (at least the early ones) were
> > written as multipart or serial stories for the pulps. Each one had to be
> > mostly a self-contained story, so he pretty much HAD to flop you all over
> > the place to build up reader tension again.
> >
> > It's a beautiful style, as you're getting several adventures wrapped up in
> > one longer story. And all the detail you really need is in your
> > imagination. He gives you a few seeds of description and lets them flower
> > in your mind.
>
>
>Is that correct? While ERB's Tarzan of the Apes first appeared in serial
>form, was it not written as a complete manuscript - in longhand to boot -
>and submitted that way? Some of REH's longer stuff much later submitted to
>WT was split into 2, 3 or 5 parts in the case of HOTD. REH did not write
>them to be serials, the editor FW did the splitting. I doubt much was
>written with serial publication in mind except things like the Black Mask
>discussed somewhere recently where you have the same authors writing about
>the same hero month after month.
The four-part style is quite evident in some of the ERB books, and is not
really present in others. It may be that he switched to the four-part
style rather than away from it, now that I give the matter some more
thought. The Carson Napier books are like that, and at least two of the
John Carter of Mars books (Lhana of Gathol and the Jupiter story, there
being only one or two parts to the latter story).
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