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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
Samuel R. Delany
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Description for The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
Paperback. An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; FL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819568830
SKU
V9780819568830
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About Samuel R. Delany
SAMUEL R. DELANY is award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City.
Reviews for The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
"I re-read The Jewel-Hinged Jaw every year as a source of guidance, as a measure of what all criticism and literature should aspire to be, and as a challenge for those of us who want to write." JUNOT DIAZ, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist"