Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 161
Triton [Trouble on Triton] (Delany), xvii, xxiv, xxxi
“Tunnel, The” (Crane), 218, 224
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [20,000 lieuesn sous la mer] (Verne), 150, 168, 260
Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne), 25
Tyler, Stephen, xxiii
Tzara, Tristan, 4
Uccello, Paolo, 29, 30
Ullian, J. S., 273
Ulysses (Joyce), 80, 162, 166, 183, 184, 186, 187, 208
Ulysses: A Study (Gilbert), 186
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 37
Underwood, Wilbur, 242
Universe and Dr. Einstein, The (Barnett), 310
Unterecker, John, 187, 190, 192, 212, 238, 241–243
“The Architecture of The Bridge,” 187
Voyager, 238, 243
Valéry, Paul, 146, 217
Van Duyn, Mona, 15
van Gogh, Theo, 7
van Gogh, Vincent, 7–10
Wheatfield with Crows, 8
“Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society” (Artaud), 7–10
van Vogt, A. E., 266, 269
“Van Winkle” (Crane), 219, 224
Vaugh, Henry, 191
Venus de Milo, the, 21, 255
Verdi, Giuseppi, 34
Verne, Jules, 150, 260
From the Earth to the Moon, 260
20,000 lieues sous la mer, 150, 168, 260
Vidal, Gore, 205
The City and the Pillar, 205
Videodrome (Cronenberg), 149
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 191, 222
20,0000 lieues sous la mer [20,000] Leagues Under the Sea] (Verne), 150, 168, 260
“Virginia” (Crane), 189, 224
Visionary Company, The (Bloom), 198n
Voelker, Hunce, 183
The Hart Crane Voyages, 183
Vogt, Gertrude E, 190, 243
Volksblätter, Die, 46, 51, 52, 56, 58, 60
Vollmann, William T., 166
You Bright and Risen Angels, 166
Vonnegut, Kurt, 147
A Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara [The Peyote Dance] (Artaud), 3
Voyages (Crane), 184, 186, 187, 200, 205, 214, 239
“Voyages I,” 239, 246
“Voyages II,” 184, 185
W. H. Auden: Collected Poems (Auden), 240
“Waddah and Om-El-Bonain” (Thomson [B.V.]), 228
Wagner, Cosima, 3, 39, 43, 70
Wagner, Joanna, 1
Wagner, Klara, 61
Wagner, Minna Planer, 48, 57, 61
Wagner, Richard, x, xxvi–xxx, 1–3, 16–23, 31–34, 37, 39–76, 78–84, 103, 203, 204
“An einen Staatsanwalt,” 52
Art and Revolution, 3, 16, 48, 63
The Artwork of the Future, 3, 16, 48
“Germany and its Princes,” 52
Götterdämmerung, 55, 83, 203, 204
“Greetings from Saxony to the Viennese,” 52
“Here Comes the Bride,” 21
“Jewry in Music,” 3, 48, 57, 67, 72
Liebestod, 21
Lohengrin, 21, 45, 56, 59, 61, 73
Mein Leben, 43–45, 47–54, 60, 64, 67
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 18
“Die Noth,” 52
Opera and Drama, 3, 16, 48, 71
Parsifal, 69, 70, 74, 204
“Prose Sketch” for Ring cycle, 56, 61
“Revolution,” 53, 63
Das Rheingold, 69, 83
“The Ride of the Valkyries,” 21
Rienzi, 16, 45
Der Ring des Nibelungen, 21, 22, 40, 42, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 57, 63, 66, 68–70, 72, 74, 76, 79, 83, 203
Siegfried, 69
Siegfrieds Tod, 56, 57
Tannhäuser, 1, 45
Tristan und Isolde, 16, 21, 22, 44, 68, 80, 204
Die Walküre, 16, 21, 203, 204
“The Wibelungs: World History as Revealed in Saga,” 54
Wagner Rehearsing the Ring (Porges), 70, 71
Walker, Kenneth, 242
Gurdjieff’s Teaching, 242
Walküre, Die (Wagner), 16, 21, 203, 204
Walser, Robert, 151
“Wanderer, The” (Williams), 189
“Wanderings of Cain, The” (Coleridge), 145
Warren, David, 297
We Who Are About To . . . (Russ), xxxii, 91, 147–149
Weber, Brom, 192, 238–243
Webern, Anton von, 17, 80
Weideger, Paula, 139
History’s Mistress, 139
Weiner, Norbert, 89
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 141
Weller, Mathilda, 231–233
Wells, H. G., 146, 260
The Food of the Gods, 260
Things to Come, 146
Wesendonk, Mathilde von, 44
Weston, Jessie L., 72
From Ritual to Romance, 72
The Legends of the Wagner Dramas, 72
Whalen, Philip, 259
What (Silliman), 170
“What Do You Do Sunday, Mary” (Caesar), 189
What Entropy Means to Me (Effinger), 258
What’s O’Clock (Lowell), 209
Wheatfield with Crows (van Gogh), 8
Wheelright, John Brooks, 198
White, E. B., xvii
White, Edmund, xvi
White, Louise, 103
White Buildings (Crane), 194, 224, 238
Whitman, Walt, 15, 139, 191–193, 205, 218–222, 224, 237, 259
Leaves of Grass, 219
“Passage to India,” 192, 219, 221
“Prayer of Columbus,” 219
Specimen Days, 220
“To One Shortly to Die,” 220
“Wibelungs: World History as Revealed in Saga, The” (Wagner), 54
Wild Seed (Butler), 116
Wilde, Oscar, 33, 139, 182, 202, 215
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 202
Wilhelm, August, 230
William Tell overture (Rossini), 21
Williams, Oscar, 238
Williams, Tennessee, 197n
Summer and Smoke, 197n
Williams, William Carlos, 189, 191, 209, 226
In the American Grain, 189, 226
“The Wanderer,” 189
Wilson, Edmund, 209
Winters, Yvor, 191–193, 198–201, 216, 217, 223, 241–243
The Bare Hills, 199
On Modern Poets, 192
“The Significance of The Bridge by Hart Crane . . .,” 192, 199
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, xvii, xxv, 263, 282, 319
Tractatus, 265
Witton-Doris, John, 257
Woman: A Historical, Gynecological and Anthropological Compendium (Ploss), 139
Woolf, F. A., 164
Woolf, Virginia, 32
Woolsey, John M., 186
“Words” (Greenberg), 245
Wordsworth, William, 35, 145, 180, 181
Lyrical Ballads, 180
“Ruth,” 145
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Benjamin), 76
World of Trouble, A (Toomey), 258
Writing Life, The (Dillard), xiv
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, 90
Yeats, William Butler, 27, 32, 199
Yingling, Thomas, 194, 195, 198, 199, 202, 210, 218
Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text, 194, 218
You Bright and Risen Angels (Vollmann), 166
Young Törless (Musil), 141, 205
Zeffirelli, Franco, 18
Zukofsky, Louis, 166, 167
“A,” 166, 167
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About the Author
Samuel R. Delany is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His many books include the Return to Nevèrÿon series, Dhalgren, and Trouble on Triton, reissued by Wesleyan University Press; Atlantis: Three Tales (1995), Silent Interviews (1994), The Motion of Light in Water (1987), and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Delany, Samuel R.
Longer Views : extended essays / Samuel R. Delany ; with an introduction by Ken James,
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0–8195–5281–X (alk. paper).
ISBN 0–8195–6293–9 (pbk. : alk paper)
I. Title.
PS3554.E437L66 1996
814′.54–dc20 96–1237