Longer Views: Extended EssaysWesleyan University Press, 15.03.2016 - 659 Seiten Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars. “Reading is a many-layered process—like writing,” observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, Delany challenges what he calls “the hard-edged boundaries of meaning” by going beyond the customary limits of the genre in which he’s writing. By radically reworking the essay form, Delany can explore and express the many layers of his thinking about the nature of art, the workings of language, and the injustices and ironies of social, political, and sexual marginalization. Thus, Delany connects, in sometimes unexpected ways, topics as diverse as the origins of modern theater, the context of lesbian and gay scholarship, the theories of cyborgs, how metaphors mean, and the narrative structures in the Star Wars trilogy. “Over the course of his career,” Kenneth James writes in his extensive introduction, “Delany has again and again thrown into question the world-models that all too many of us unknowingly live by.” Indeed, Delany challenges an impressive list of world-models here, including High and Low Art, sanity and madness, mathematical logic and the mechanics of mythmaking, the distribution of wealth in our society, and the limitations of our sexual vocabulary. Also included are two essays that illustrate Delany’s unique chrestomathic technique, the grouping of textual fragments whose associative interrelationships a reader must actively trace to read them as a resonant argument. Whether writing about Wagner or Hart Crane, Foucault or Robert Mapplethorpe, Delany combines a fierce and often piercing vision with a powerful honesty that beckons us to share in the perspective of these Longer Views. “An intellectually adventurous book. . . . Every page of every essay here rewards a second reading, and a third. Delany has a fearsomely stocked intellect, and a wider range of experience than most writers can even imagine. . . . He is brilliant, driven, prolific.” —The Nation “One of science fiction’s grand masters. . . . Delany’s elegant command of language and deep insight into other authors’ works are delightful to behold.” —Booklist “Rare personal frankness and stunning erudition. . . . Recommended for readers who enjoy the challenge of being led into remote regions of a gifted mind.” —Library Journal |
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... Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 198os' Aversion/Perversion/Diversion Shadow and Ash Atlantis Rose . . . Some Notes on Hart Crane Appendix: Shadows Index ix xiii 87 119 144 174 251 325 This page intentionally ...
... Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 198os' Aversion/Perversion/Diversion Shadow and Ash Atlantis Rose . . . Some Notes on Hart Crane Appendix: Shadows Index ix xiii 87 119 144 174 251 325 This page intentionally ...
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... Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”—has, in pieces, provided me with various lectures ... cyborg,” can work in the radical directions Haraway's manifesto proposes for it. On the evening of November 1, 1991 ...
... Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”—has, in pieces, provided me with various lectures ... cyborg,” can work in the radical directions Haraway's manifesto proposes for it. On the evening of November 1, 1991 ...
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... cyborgs, street-hustlers, and the author's own life, in language that is sometimes light and anecdotal, sometimes vertiginously self-reflexive, but always lucid, luminous and exuberant. “Chrestomathies,” Delany calls some of the pieces ...
... cyborgs, street-hustlers, and the author's own life, in language that is sometimes light and anecdotal, sometimes vertiginously self-reflexive, but always lucid, luminous and exuberant. “Chrestomathies,” Delany calls some of the pieces ...
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... Cyborgs.” As in “Wagner/Artaud,” the privileged critical method is the argument from empirical evidence—and as in ... cyborg. A significant distinction between the two essays is that in “Wagner/Artaud,” Delany supplies the guiding ...
... Cyborgs.” As in “Wagner/Artaud,” the privileged critical method is the argument from empirical evidence—and as in ... cyborg. A significant distinction between the two essays is that in “Wagner/Artaud,” Delany supplies the guiding ...
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... cyborg.” This in turn implies a state of affairs which Delany expresses baldly and boldly: “For the record ... I do not believe castration as Freud and Lacan have described it even exists.” (RW 105) We find a hint of what this state of ...
... cyborg.” This in turn implies a state of affairs which Delany expresses baldly and boldly: “For the record ... I do not believe castration as Freud and Lacan have described it even exists.” (RW 105) We find a hint of what this state of ...
Inhalt
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A Reading of Donna Haraways Manifesto for Cyborgs Science Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s | 87 |
AversionPerversionDiversion | 119 |
Shadow and Ash | 144 |
Some Notes on Hart Crane | 174 |
Shadows | 251 |
Index | 325 |
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