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 The Emperor of Dreams - Clark Ashton Smith
Newest Review: ... is a province of medieval France. In a strict sense they are not "fantasy" stories because they are have a real, or ... more  ... nearly real, historical setting, but they can be included with the fantasy stories on the ground (amongst others) that they are not contemporary and so involve a projection away from the present both of the writer's literary style and of the reader's imagination. The projection on Smith's part involves the restrained use of an appropriately medieval vocabulary and of a certain complexity of syntax that will not be found in all fantasy stories from the other divisions: "As all men know, the adve...more |
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The Emperor of Dreams - Clark Ashton Smith: Wizard with Words (1701 words)
by - written on 18/08/01 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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If someone asked you to come up with a single term that sums up Clark Ashton Smith as a writer, I suppose you might come up with something like "vocabulary". Anyone who can read a Clark Ashton Smith story without reaching for the dictionary at least half-a-dozen times is either extremely well-read in a lot of recondite corners of literature or has read the story a few times before. Or prefers to go with the flow and let the meaning look after itself. If it's the last, then that reader isn't getting the most out of Smith, because watching the way he deploys the illimitable resources of his lexicon is, for me, one of the most enjoyable things about his ... Read the complete review
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