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While most literary critics can take a text apart, few can create them as expertly. Samuel R. Delany is a noteworthy exception. Delany is the author of great science fiction works like the novel The Mad Man and the short stories in Tales of Neveryon. He is also an able assessor of literary theory and a cognoscente of the science fiction genre. Longer Views is a collection of essays in literary criticism, ranging from a close reading of Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs," in which he is critical of the feminist author's naively positive take on technology, to a fascinating consideration of the artistic styles of Richard Wagner and Antonin Artaud. Of particular interest to cybernauts and science fiction fans alike is Delaney's consideration of how readers and viewers participate in the creation of the background conditions for fictitious fantasy worlds and the role a reader or viewer plays in completing an artistic work of science fiction. Delany's criticism is well-crafted and never flags or grows tiresome.
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To this unusual cluster of five long, eccentric essays, science fiction writer and comparative literature professor Delany brings a rare personal frankness and stunning erudition. Intellectual probings into topics as varied as Richard Wagner and poet Hart Crane's masterwork The Bridge, these sometimes turgid pieces pivot on questions of linguistics, science fiction, and homosexuality. For instance, in "Aversion/Perversion/Diversion," an address given at Rutgers's Lesbian and Gay Conference on Gay Studies, Delany speaks not only of his own early homosexual experience but of how "the sexual experience is still outside the language." Recommended for readers who enjoy the challenge of being led into remote regions of a gifted mind.?Charles C. Nash, Cottey Coll. Nevada, Mo.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference by Jeffrey Allen Tucker on 15 pages
- Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars by Rita Keresztesi in Back Matter
- Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics--A Collection of Written Interviews by Samuel R. Delany in Back Matter
- O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane by Langdon Hammer in Back Matter
- Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard) by Carla Mazzio on page 34
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