The Jewel-hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Jewel-hinged Jaw An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
Full description- Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- Published: 07 July 2009
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Literature: History & Criticism | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Science Fiction | Social & Cultural Anthropology
- ISBN 13: 9780819568830 ISBN 10: 081956883X
- Sales rank: 403,454
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Full description for The Jewel-hinged Jaw
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 brilliantly today as when they first appeared. Essays such as "About 5,750 Words" and "To Read The Dispossessed" first made the book a classic; they assure it will remain one.
