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Tales of Neveryon (Return to Neveryon) (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Tales of Nevèrÿon
- Publication Name
- Tales of Neveryon (Return to Neveryon)
- Title
- Tales of Neveryon (Return to Neveryon)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 081956270X
- EAN
- 9780819562708
- ISBN
- 9780819562708
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Genre
- Social Science, Fiction
- Topic
- Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Science Fiction / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Release Date
- 29/12/1993
- Release Year
- 1993
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Features
- Reprint
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
081956270x
ISBN-13
9780819562708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038432097
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tales of Nevèrÿon
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Science Fiction / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3554.E437.T3 1993
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian."--USA Today, This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian., "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs." ÑNew York Times Book Review, "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."--New York Times Book Review, "The tales of Nev�rØon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and Ð above all Ð the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." ÑWashington Post Book World, "This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian." - USA Today, Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs., "This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian." -USA Today, "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs." -- New York Times Book Review, The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining., "The tales of Neveryeon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." --Washington Post Book World, "The tales of Neveryeon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." --Washington Post Book World, "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." -Washington Post Book World, "This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian."ÑUSA Today, The tales of Nevron are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining., "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and above all the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." - Washington Post Book World, "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." -- The Washington Post Book World "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."-- The New York Times Book Review "This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian."-- USA Today "Complex and carefully crafted . . . his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic."-- Publishers Weekly, "Complex and carefully crafted . . . his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic."- Publishers Weekly, "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."--New York Times Book Review\R, "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -above all -the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining."-- The Washington Post Book World "Complex and carefully crafted . . . his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic."-- Publishers Weekly "This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian."-- USA Today "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining."-- The Washington Post Book World "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."-- The New York Times Book Review, "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."-New York Times Book Review, "The tales of Nevèryon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." -Washington Post Book World, "Complex and carefully crafted . . . his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic."-Publishers Weekly, "Complex and carefully crafted . . . his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic."ÑPublishers Weekly, "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."- New York Times Book Review, "I consider Delany not only one of the most important SF writers of the present generation, but a fascinating writer in general who has invented a new style."--Umberto Eco "Delany's work exists on a kind of borderline -- between theory and literary practice, between canonical and popular culture, between academic and nonacademic culture -- a borderline familiar to feminist theory and cultural critique. The Nevèrÿon series is one of the most sustained meditations we have on the complex intersections of sexuality, race, and subjectivity in contemporary cultures.""--Constance Penley "The Nevèrÿon series is a major and unclassifiable achievement in contemporary American literature."--Fredric R. Jameson, "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."-New York Times Book Review, "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -; above all -; the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining."-- The Washington Post Book World "Delany's work exists on a kind of borderline -- between theory and literary practice, between canonical and popular culture, between academic and nonacademic culture -- a borderline familiar to feminist theory and cultural critique. The Nevèrÿon series is one of the most sustained meditations we have on the complex intersections of sexuality, race, and subjectivity in contemporary cultures."--Constance Penley "I consider Delany not only one of the most important SF writers of the present generation, but a fascinating writer in general who has invented a new style."--Umberto Eco "Complex and carefully crafted . . . his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic."-- Publishers Weekly "This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . . semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship. It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian."-- USA Today "The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and - above all - the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining."-- The Washington Post Book World "Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."-- The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
9317-000848
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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