Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :1993-11-29 ISBN 13:9780819562708 Total Pages :270 pages Rating :4.6/5 (562 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Tales of Nevèrÿon :
Download or Read book Tales of Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Five inter-connected stories set in a mythical past focus on the experiences of the slave Gorgik
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :1994-04-25 ISBN 13:9780819562784 Total Pages :300 pages Rating :4.6/5 (562 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Return to Nevèrÿon :
Download or Read book Return to Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 4 In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿonvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission — or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :1994-04-25 ISBN 13:9780819562777 Total Pages :388 pages Rating :4.6/5 (562 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Flight from Nevèrÿon :
Download or Read book Flight from Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In this chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink, Gorgik the Liberator's slave revolt takes an unexpected turn. Flight from Neveryon contains a novella, a long story, and a full-length novel.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2012-06-18 ISBN 13:0575119233 Total Pages :335 pages Rating :4.7/5 (575 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Tales of Neveryon :
Download or Read book Tales of Neveryon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Five inter-connected stories set in a mythical past focus on the experiences of the slave Gorgik and deal with aspects of the beginning of civilization. Contents: "The Tale of Gorgik" "The Tale of Old Venn" "The Tale of Small Sarg" "The Tale of Potters and Dragons" "The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers."
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2013-07-25 ISBN 13:0575119276 Total Pages :291 pages Rating :4.7/5 (575 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Return to Neveryon :
Download or Read book Return to Neveryon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In this chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink, Gorgik the Liberator's campaign to end slavery has been successful. But in the novel and two novellas comprising this fourth, final, and eponymous volume in Delany's series, slavery is both a political memory and a sado-masochistic sexual fantasy... The Game of Time and Pain: In this novel, stopping in a deserted castle for the night, Gorgik reflected on his campaign to a barbarian boy. The Tale of Rumor and Desire: From the gutters of port Kohari to the mountain gorge of Neveryon, the novella gives a moving account of the life of a Neveryon bandit and outlaw in the time of Gorgik the Liberator. The Tale of Gorgik: With this story of Gorgik's youth, we begin our real return to Neveryon...
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2021-02-25 ISBN 13:1000339815 Total Pages :154 pages Rating :4.0/5 ( users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Love and Money :
Download or Read book Love and Money written by Michael Tratner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: When people speak about love and money, they usually are referring to a conflict: love distorted by the desire for money. Such statements imply that love has a distinct form before economics interferes, but this book aims to show that such a view simplifies what is going on, because people have always been deeply shaped by everything in the social order, including economics. So when people say that money is distorting love, what they are really saying is that the current relationship of love and economics is different from an earlier relationship. This book seeks then to demonstrate the intertwining of the discourses of love and money over a long history by focusing on moments when parallel conceptions appear in economic theories and love stories. The two discourses intersect because both seek to define qualities and behaviors of human beings which are most valuable and hence most desirable. Similar descriptions of valuable behaviors appear at roughly the same time in economic theories of how to acquire wealth and literary stories of how to find ideal lovers. By tracking mutual expressions of desire, value, and acquisition in economics and love stories, this book argues for the ubiquity of the intertwining of these discourses, while exploring shifts in conceptions of value. It focuses on four eras when economic and romantic conceptions of what is most desirable were actively changing in English discourses: the early modern 17th century, the Victorian 19th, the modernist 20th, and the postmodern present.
Publisher :Univ. Press of Mississippi Release Date :1996 ISBN 13:9781617033506 Total Pages :248 pages Rating :4.3/5 (33 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Ash of stars :
Download or Read book Ash of stars written by James Sallis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: A critical appreciation of the acclaimed science-fiction writer and his works
Publisher :Springer Release Date :2012-12-04 ISBN 13:1137330791 Total Pages :238 pages Rating :4.3/5 (137 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction :
Download or Read book Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction written by Gerald Alva Miller Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :2004-07-26 ISBN 13:9780819566898 Total Pages :366 pages Rating :4.6/5 (566 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt A Sense of Wonder :
Download or Read book A Sense of Wonder written by Jeffrey A. Tucker and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Samuel R. Delany is one of today's most interesting writers. 'A Sense of Wonder' shows how Delany's works participate in African American cultural traditions.
Publisher :Lexington Books Release Date :2016-03-07 ISBN 13:149851930X Total Pages :468 pages Rating :4.9/5 (498 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature :
Download or Read book Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature written by Edward W. Younkins and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time.
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :2012-01-01 ISBN 13:0819571970 Total Pages :479 pages Rating :4.1/5 (819 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Shorter Views :
Download or Read book Shorter Views written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time. These essays cluster around topics related to queer theory on the one hand, and on the other, questions concerning the paraliterary genres: science fiction, pornography, comics, and more. Readers new to Delany's work will find this collection of shorter pieces an especially good introduction, while those already familiar with his writing will appreciate having these essays between two covers for the first time.
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :2013-04-01 ISBN 13:0819573566 Total Pages :224 pages Rating :4.1/5 (819 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Phallos :
Download or Read book Phallos written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor’s favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck Scott.
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2006-12-19 ISBN 13:1135864586 Total Pages :237 pages Rating :4.3/5 (135 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction :
Download or Read book The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction written by Sharon DeGraw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2011-09-29 ISBN 13:0575119268 Total Pages :480 pages Rating :4.7/5 (575 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Flight from Neveryon :
Download or Read book Flight from Neveryon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Silent, upon a peak in Nevèrÿon. The enchanted land of Nevèrÿon is the most fascinating fantasy empire ever mapped by a modern word-enchanter - a realm of nameless terror and sensuous delights beyond the feeble imaginings of mortal men and women. Now Nevèrÿon's wildest desires and darkest dreams collide with the drear realities of our own blighted world as the gossamer boundaries between the real and the fantastic, truth and falsehood being to break down. And the world we know (or think we know) is revealed to us as if for the first time.
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :1995-07-28 ISBN 13:9780819563125 Total Pages :234 pages Rating :4.6/5 (563 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Atlantis :
Download or Read book Atlantis written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Three novellas by a black writer. The novella, Atlantis: Model 1924, describes the sense of wonder experienced by a 17-year-old black youth from the South on his arrival in New York, while Citre et Trans is on a black man who is raped in Greece and the effect this has on his life. By the author of Return to Neveryon.
Publisher :Humanities-Ebooks Release Date :2007-01-01 ISBN 13: Total Pages :266 pages Rating :4./5 ( users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction :
Download or Read book Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction written by John Lennard and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: A volume of essays exploring some of the best genre fiction of the last 40 years, including workk by Reginald Hill, Thomas Harris, Dorothy L. Sayers, Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb (since 2000 the world's best-selling novelist) , J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Ian McDonald, Octavia E. Butler, and The Tortallan World of Tamora Pierce.
Publisher :Wesleyan University Press Release Date :2016-03-15 ISBN 13:0819571946 Total Pages :659 pages Rating :4.1/5 (819 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Longer Views :
Download or Read book Longer Views written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: 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
