Everything you need to understand or teach Tarzan Alive by Philip José Farmer.
Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote serviceable prose at best, but what he lacked in style, he more than compensated for in sheer invention. He possessed a powerful and vivid imagination, and with it, he created the fantasy of a primitive being concealed inside ourselves: an absolutely good hero dominating a world of savagery and beauty.
Moreover, Burroughs also had a coherent vision of life. Like most mythic literature, his Tarzan books are about what a...