The Jewel-Hinged Jaw : Notes on the Language of Science Fiction.

An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delany, Samuel R.
Other Authors: Cheney, Matthew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prefaces and Acknowledgments; Ethical Aesthetics, An Introduction by Matthew Cheney; 1. About 5,750 Words; 2. Critical Methods / Speculative Fiction; 3. Quarks; 4. Thickening the Plot; 5. Faust and Archimedes; 6. Alyx; 7. Prisoners' Sleep; 8. Letter to the Symposium on "Women In Science Fiction"; 9. To Read The Dispossessed; 10. A Fictional Architecture That Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison; Appendixes; A. Midcentury; B. Letter to a Critic; Index.