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词条 Michael R. Collings
释义

  1. Life and career

  2. Selected bibliography

     Articles and papers  Non-fiction books  Novels  Poetry and Fiction collections 

  3. See also

  4. References

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| alt = Collings at Life, the Universe, & Everything, a science fiction and fantasy symposium at Brigham Young University.
| caption = Collings at Life, the Universe, & Everything, a science fiction and fantasy symposium at Brigham Young University.
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|10|29}}
| birth_place = Rupert, Idaho
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| occupation = author, bibliographer, literary critic, poet, professor (retired)
| language = English
| nationality = United States
| education = Master's degree (English)
Ph.D. (English literature)
| alma_mater = Bakersfield College (AA)
Whittier College (BA)
University of California, Riverside (MA and PhD)
| period = 1979 - current
| genres = fantasy, horror, science fiction
| subjects = Orson Scott Card, Stephen King
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| notableworks = In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card
| spouse = Judi Collings
| children = Michaelbrent Collings
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| website = {{url|http://www.starshineandshadows.com/|StarShine and Shadows}}
}}Michael Robert Collings (born October 29, 1947)[1][2] is an American author, poet, literary critic, and bibliographer, and a former professor of creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University.[2][3] He was Poet in Residence at Pepperdine's Seaver College from 1997-2000.[4]

Collings has had multiple collections of his poetry published on subjects such as Latter Day Saint theology, Joseph Smith, Christmas, science fiction, and horror.[4] He is known for his literary critiques and bibliographies of the works of Orson Scott Card and Stephen King,[2][3][4] though he has also published critiques and bibliographies of the works of Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, C. S. Lewis, Brian W. Aldiss, and Piers Anthony.[2][4] His In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card was the first book-length academic look at Card's works.[4][5]

Life and career

Michael Robert Collings was born on October 29, 1947 in Rupert, Idaho.[6] He graduated from Bakersfield College in 1967 with an Associate's degree, then graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English from Whittier College two years later. After graduating with a Master's degree in English from the University of California, Riverside in 1973, Collings received his Ph.D. in English literature from UCR in 1977, specializing in Milton and The Renaissance.[7]

Before he began teaching creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University,[2] Collings taught at UCR, San Bernardino Valley Community College, and UCLA. He taught at Pepperdine from 1979[7] until 2010, when he retired. He now lives in Idaho with his wife, Judi. His son, Michaelbrent Collings, is a fantasy and horror writer.

Collings was introduced to Stephen King's work by a student, David A. Engebretson, in 1983, and published his first book on him, The Many Facets of Stephen King, in 1985; reading King led to his also studying and publishing on Koontz and Robert McCammon.[8]

The World Horror Convention awarded him their Grand Master Award in 2016.[9]

Selected bibliography

Articles and papers

  • "C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation" (July–August 1979), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "The Mechanisms of Fantasy" (January 1980), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "To Be Still a Man: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis" (January 1982), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Novels", (December 1986), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss’s Psychological Landscape" (1988), Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Greenwood Press
  • "Brian W. Aldiss" (1989), Reader’s Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, American Library Association
  • "To See the World the Poet's Way" In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. New York: Greenwood Press, (1990), Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed.Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 279. Detroit: Gale, 2010
Sources:[4]

Non-fiction books

  • The Many Facets of Stephen King (1985), Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-14-3}}
  • The Shorter Works of Stephen King (1985), with David A. Engebretson, Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-02-X}}
  • Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-00-3}}
  • The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer (1986), Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-80-1}}
  • The Films of Stephen King (1986), Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-10-0}}
  • Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card (1987), Hypatia Press, {{ISBN|0-940841-01-0}}
  • The Stephen King Phenomenon (1987), Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-12-7}}
  • In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990), Greenwood Press, {{ISBN|0-313-26404-X}}
  • Scaring Us to Death: The Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture (1997), Borgo Press, {{ISBN|0-930261-37-2}}
  • The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1997), with Boden Clarke
  • Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (2000), Overlook Connection Press, {{ISBN|1-892950-15-4}}
  • Storyteller: The Official Guide to the Works of Orson Scott Card (2001), Overlook Connection Press, {{ISBN|1-892950-26-X}}
  • Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000 (2003), Overlook Connection Press, {{ISBN|1-892950-45-6}}
  • Stephen King Is Richard Bachman, (March 2008), Overlook Connection Press, {{ISBN|1-892950-74-X}}
Sources:[2][4][5]

Novels

  • The House Beyond the Hill (2007, Wildside Press, {{ISBN|1-4344-0066-2}})
  • Singer of Lies (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-5710-3}})
  • The Slab (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-1207-2}})
  • Static! (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-3530-9}})
  • Shadow Valley (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-3521-7}})
  • Writing Darkness (2012, CreateSpace, {{ISBN|978-1-4793-8404-4}})

Wordsmith series

  1. The Veil of Heaven (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-0280-6}})
  2. The Thousand Eyes of Flame (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-0281-3}})
  3. Three Tales of Omne (2010, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-1177-8}}, published in an omnibus with The Elder of Days by Robert Reginald)

Poetry and Fiction collections

  • Naked to the Sun (1986, Starmont House, {{ISBN|0-930261-76-3}})
  • Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change (1990, Starmont House, {{ISBN|1-55742-196-X}})
  • The Nephiad: An Epic Poem in XII Books (1996, Zarahemla Motets, {{ISBN|1-886405-52-2}})
  • All Calm, All Bright: Christmas Offerings (2007, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-0172-4}})
  • In the Void: Poems of Science Fiction, Myth and Fantasy, & Horror (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-5761-5}})
  • Wer Means Man and Other Tales of Wonder and Terror (2010, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-1187-7}})
Sources:[4][6][10]

See also

  • Fire in the Pasture

References

1. ^U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-r-collings/|title=Michael R Collings|publisher=FantasticFiction|date=2008-02-16|first=D C|last=Wands|accessdate=2008-02-29}}
3. ^1 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BcECkYB7uoC&pg=PA43 |title=Stephen King from A to Z: an encyclopedia of his life and work|first=George W. |last=Beahm|date=1998|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|page=43|isbn=0-8362-6914-4}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=372|title=Michael R. Collings|publisher=Brigham Young University|year=2003|accessdate=2008-02-29}}
5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.aml-online.org/reviews/b/B199766.html |title=AML-List Review: In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card |first=Jonathan |last=Langford |date=1997-10-21 |publisher=Association for Mormon Letters |accessdate=2008-02-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026054057/http://www.aml-online.org/reviews/b/B199766.html |archivedate=2007-10-26 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6224|title=Michael R. Collings - Summary Bibliography|publisher=Internet Speculative Fiction Database|accessdate=May 5, 2015}}
7. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://arachnid.pepperdine.edu/humteachered/faculty/collings/bio_info.html|title=Michael R. Collings Bio Information|publisher=Pepperdine University|accessdate=2008-02-29|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105233533/http://arachnid.pepperdine.edu/humteachered/faculty/collings/bio_info.html|archivedate=January 5, 2009}}
8. ^{{cite web |first=Ben |last=Lindbergh |url=https://www.theringer.com/2018/9/4/17815650/the-stephen-king-chroniclers |title=The King Chroniclers and the Reimagining of an Icon of American Letters |website=The Ringer |date=September 4, 2018 |accessdate=September 10, 2018 }}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sfadb.com/World_Horror_Grandmaster_2016|title=World Horror Grandmaster 2016 |publisher=Science Fiction Awards Database |accessdate=March 4, 2019 |archivedate=March 4, 2019|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/76dEK4Lcl|deadurl=no}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-r-collings/house-beyond-hill.htm|title=The House Beyond the Hill by Michael R Collings|publisher=FantasticFiction|accessdate=2008-02-29}}
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