Scholarship and criticism on Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Arbur, Rosemarie.
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1985.
  • "Marion Zimmer Bradley." 70-1. In Science Fiction Writers. Ed. Curtis Smith.
  • Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.
Benko, Debra A.
  • "Morgan le Fay and King Arthur in Malory's Works and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon: Sibling Discord and the Fall of the Round Table." 23-31 In The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature. ed. JoAnna S. Mink. and Janet D. Ward. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1992.
Breen, Walter.
  • The Darkover Concordance. Pennyfarthing Press. n.d.
Cowan, Robert
  • Introduction, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana Paxson, Diana Donaldson, and Evangeline Walton. "Why Write Fantasy? A Mythopoeic Conference XIV Panel." Mythlore. 10:4 (38) (1984 Spring), 23-27.
Farwell, Marilyn R.
  • "Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Towards a Theory of Lesbian Narrative Space." 8?1-103. In Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions. ed. Karla Jay, Joanne Glasgoqw, and Catherine Stimpson. NYUP, 1990.
Fry, Carrol L.
  • "The Goddess Ascending: Feminist Neo-Pagan Witchcraft in Marian Zimmer Bradley's Novels." Journal of Popular Culture. 27:1 (1993 Summer), 67-80.
  • Fry, Carrol L. "'What God Doth the Wizard Pray To': Neo-Pagan Withcraft and Fantay Fiction." Extrapolation 31.4 (Winter 1990): 333-46?.
Fuog, Karin E. C.
  • "Imprisoned in the Phallic Oak: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Merlin's Seductress." Quondam-et-Futurus. 1:1 (1991 Spring) 73-88.
Hopson, Kathryn M.
  • Re-Visioning Morgan le Fay: A Unifying Metaphor for the Image of Woman in Twentieth Century Literature. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1993 Oct, 54:4, 1365A DAI No.: DA9324601. Degree granting institution: U of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993
Hornum, Barbara.
  • "Wife/Mother, Sorceress/Keeper, Amazon/Renunciate: Status Ambivalence and Conflicting Roles on the Planet Darkover." 153-64. In Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of SF & F. Ed. Jane B. Weedman. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
Hughes, Linda K.
  • "The Pleasure Lies in Power: The Status of the Lie in Malory and Bradley." 99-112 In The Arthurian Yearbook, II. ed. Keith Busby. New York : Garland, 1992.
Hughes, Melinda.
  • "Dark Sisters and Light Sisters: Sister Doubling and the Search for Sisterhood in The Mists of Avalon and The White Raven." Mythlore 19:1 (1993 Winter) 24-28.
Jones, Libby Falk.
  • "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias." 116-129. In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Godwin. Knoxville : U of Tenn. P, 1990.
Kaler, Anne K.
  • "Bradley and the Beguines: MZB's Debt to the Beguinal Societies in Her Use of Sisterhood in Her Darkover Novels." 70-90. In Heroines of Popular Culture. Ed. Pat Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1987.
Kobler, Turner S.
  • "King Arthur and Popular Culture." 107-14 In The Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic: A Festschrift in Honor of Lavon B. Fulwiler. ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas : Caxton's Mod. Arts, 1993.
Leith, Linda.
  • "Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover." Science Fiction Studies (1980): 28-35.
MacIntyre, Vonda.
  • [Review of Darkover Landfall] The Witch and the Chameleon 2 (Nov. 1974): 20-4.
Noble, James.
  • "Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of Avalon. " 288-96 In Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend. ed. Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley. Albany : State U of New York P, 1994.
Ross, Meredith Jane.
  • The Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Restructuring of Arthurian Materials in Selected Modern Novels. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1986 June, 46:12, 3717A
Russ, Joanna.
  • "Recent Feminist Utopias." 71-5. In Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Bowling Green OH: Popular Press, 1981.
  • [Letter About Darkover Landfall] Witch and the Chameleon 4 (Sept. 1975): 15-18.
Russi, Roger.
  • Dialogues with Epic Figures: Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra', Monique Wittig's 'Les Guerilleres', and Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Firebrand.' Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI). 1994 Feb, 54:8, 3021A DAI No.: DA9402177. Degree granting institution: U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.
Schwartz, Susan M.
  • "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." 73-88 In The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. ed. Tom Staicar. New York : Ungar, 1982.
Sheppeard, Sallye J.
  • "Arthur and the Goddess: Cultural Crisis in The Mists of Avalon." 91-104 In The Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic: A Festschrift in Honor of Lavon B. Fulwiler. ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas :Caxton's Mod. Arts, 1993.
Shwartz, Susan M.
  • "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." 73-88. In The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. Ed. Tom Staicar. Ungar, 1982.
  • "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom" in The Feminine Eye, edited by Tom Staicar, (Ungar: New York, 1982) pp. 73-88.
Spivack, Charlotte.
  • Chapter on MZB in Merlin's Daughters. Greenwood, 1987: 149-62.
  • "Morgan Le Fay: Goddess or Witch?." 18-23 In Popular Arthurian Traditions. ed. Sally K. Slocum. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1992.
Tobin, Lee Ann.
  • "Why Change the Arthur Story? Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon ." Extrapolation. 34:2 (1993 Summer), 147-57.
Volk Birke, Sabine.
  • "The Cyclical Way of the Preistess: On the Significance of Narratiive Structures in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon." Anglia: Zeitschrift Fur Englishe Philologie 100.3-4 (1990): 400-28.
Wise, S.
  • The Darkover Dilemma: Problems of the Darkover Series. Baltimore: T-K Graphics,1976.
Wood, Diane S.
  • "Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley." 237-46. In Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of SF & F. Ed. Jane B. Weedman. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
  • "Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley" in Jane B. Weedman, editor, Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1985). pages 237-246.


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