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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... poetry of Hart Crane, with an emphasis on Crane's wonderfully rich poetic series, The Bridge. Though I hope this essay can be enjoyed without Crane's text x Preface.
... poetry of Hart Crane, with an emphasis on Crane's wonderfully rich poetic series, The Bridge. Though I hope this essay can be enjoyed without Crane's text x Preface.
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... poets, 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 ...
... poets, 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 ...
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... poetry editors and critics analyze and actually revise the works of various poets according to then-prevailing discursive imperatives. Against the rhetorical interventions of their editors Delany positions the writing protocols of the poets ...
... poetry editors and critics analyze and actually revise the works of various poets according to then-prevailing discursive imperatives. Against the rhetorical interventions of their editors Delany positions the writing protocols of the poets ...
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Extended Essays Samuel R. Delany. ists a Common Reader of poetry who comes from no place—and is going nowhere” (AR 240). But as Delany says in “Shadow and Ash"— specifically in response to the critical work of Language Poet Ron Silliman ...
Extended Essays Samuel R. Delany. ists a Common Reader of poetry who comes from no place—and is going nowhere” (AR 240). But as Delany says in “Shadow and Ash"— specifically in response to the critical work of Language Poet Ron Silliman ...
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... poetry readings billed as Tête-à-Tétes. The rush on tickets was astonishing—most of them bought just before curtain time, as though the rumor of Artaud's talk had just gone around in the last hours. There were a hundred standees in the ...
... poetry readings billed as Tête-à-Tétes. The rush on tickets was astonishing—most of them bought just before curtain time, as though the rumor of Artaud's talk had just gone around in the last hours. There were a hundred standees in the ...
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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