Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany

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A critical appreciation of the acclaimed science-fiction writer and his works

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Overview

A critical appreciation of the acclaimed science-fiction writer and his works

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780878058525
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication date: 5/1/1996
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 6.28 (w) x 9.33 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Languages of Science Fiction: Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17 3
To See What Condition Our Condition Is In: Trial by Language in Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 17
Debased and Lascivious? Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 26
The Politics of Desire in Delany's Triton and Tides of Lust 43
On Dhalgren 62
"This You-Shaped Hole of Insight and Fire": Meditations on Delany's Dhalgren 97
Necessary Constraints: Samuel R. Delany on Science Fiction 109
Neveryon Deconstructed: Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Neveryon and the "Modular Calculus" 127
Delany's Dirt 162
Subverted Equations: G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form and Samuel R. Delany's Analytics of Attention 189
Selected Bibliography 215
Contributors 218
Index 221
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