On Tarzan

by Alex Vernon

On Tarzan is a sometimes playful, sometimes serious, and always provocative consideration of the twentieth century's best-known fictional character. It is also the first book-length investigation of a century's worth of Tarzan's incarnations and our varied imaginative responses to them. As Alex Vernon looks at how and why we have accorded mythical, archetypal status to Tarzan, he takes stock of the Tarzan books, films, and comics as well as some of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820332054
• ISBN13: 9780820332055
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"