Research Catalog

Title

The jewel-hinged jaw : notes on the language of science fiction / Samuel R. Delany.

Author

Delany, Samuel R.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xxx, 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw first appeared in 1977, and has long been out of print and hard to find. Its demonstration that science fiction is a special language, rather than gadgets and green-skinned aliens, had an impact that reverberates today in science fiction criticism. This edition includes two new essays, one written at the time and one written about those times, as well as an introduction by writer and teacher Matthew Cheney, placing Delany's work in historical context. Close textual analyses of Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Joanna Russ read as brilliantly today as when they first appeared." --Book Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Delany, Samuel R
• Science fiction > History and criticism
• Science fiction > Technique

Genre/Form

• Science fiction
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ethical aesthetics, an introduction / by Matthew Cheney -- About 5,750 words -- Critical methods/speculative fiction -- Quarks -- Thickening the plot -- Faust and Archimedes -- Alyx -- Prisoners' sleep -- Letter to the symposium on "Women in science fiction" -- To read The dispossessed -- A fictional architecture that manages only with great difficulty not once to mention Harlan Ellison.

ISBN

• 9780819568830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 081956883X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780819568847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0819568848 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008054082

OCLC

• 291193734
• SCSB-12653457

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library