<P>Samuel R. Delany, whose theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy has won him a broad audience among academics and fans of postmodernist fiction, offers insights into and explorations of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black man in his new collection of written interviews, a form he describes as a type of «guided essay.» Gathered from sources as diverse as Diacritics and Comics Journal, thes ...
<P>Song of the Husbands<BR>for Henry<BR> <BR>All winter the kind husbands hover <BR>like mortgaged angels. One <BR>smells gasoline in his sleep, would <BR>be my lover. They want me </P><P>to be well. Specimen, they say, and <BR>mean endearment. I row <BR>into the flood. The vodka </P& ...
<P>The highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues were published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. Edited by internationally recognized poet/critics Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, the journal presents major conversations and debates, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. This archive re-presents virtually all the artic ...
<P>Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words «dangerous»—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical with the sardonic, ...
<P>Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and pro ...
<P>This is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction's relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism's impact on late Victorian Gothic and adventure fiction and ...
<P>Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of th ...
El inmigrante piamontes I esta centrado en la vida de Giuseppe Monticone, un nino de 11 anos que llego a Argentina en 1890 y atrajo a su familia de origen a reencontrarse 9 anos mas tarde para vivir en este pais hasta el fin de sus dias, formando una gran familia dispersa en la inmensa geografia de esta nacion que recibio a los inmigrantes extranjeros para cultivar la tierra y dar prosperidad a los pueblos. La obra intenta reconstruir la histori ...
"Por el Placer de Contar" de Gladis Barchilon, es una compilacion de cuentos autonomos entre si, pero sutilmente unidos por un matiz comun: el estilo. Imposible dudar de que fueron cincelados por el mismo buril. La autora tiene la curiosa capacidad de estar dentro y fuera de los protagonistas. Los acompana en su viaje interior y al mismo tiempo los contempla desde lejos. Una interesante galeria de personajes y situaciones. Algunas humoristi ...
