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Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"From the four-time Nebula Award -- winning author, an indispensable work of science fiction criticism, revised and expanded. Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in science fiction criticism. This edition includes...
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A revised and expanded edition of a classic work of criticism exploring how science fiction is not about the future but about the potential of the present. In Starboard Wine , Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference," we begin to see the quality...
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the four-time Nebula Award -- winning author, a keystone text in literary theory and science fiction analyzing a 1972 work of dystopian fiction. The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch -- "Angouleme" was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin , Roland Barthes's commentary...
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars. "Reading is a many-layered process -- like writing," observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo Award -- winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, Delany challenges what he calls "the hard-edged boundaries of meaning" by going beyond...
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