On Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren

Bill Wood

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Fantastic Books
09 September 2021

Language Reference & Linguistics; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

Samuel R. Delany is the winner of two Hugos and four Nebula Awards. He has been honored with lifetime achievement awards, including SFWA's Grand Master, the Eaton Award, the Lambda Pilgrim Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Dhalgren, his most popular and most controversial novel, was first published in 1975. It was nominated for the Nebula Award, remains in print to this day, and has sold close to two million copies in a variety of editions.

In this book are collected reviews, critical essays, and in-depth analyses of Dhalgren as a novel, and as commentary on life and the world. There are also discussions of how to read the novel, and clues to unraveling some of the mysteries hidden therein. Contributors include Douglas Barbour, Mary Kay Bray, Rudi Dornemann, Harlan Ellison, Robert Elliot Fox, Jean Marc Gawron, Kenneth R. James, Gerald Jonas, John Nizalowski, Steven Paley, Darrell Schweitzer, Steven Shaviro, K. Leslie Steiner, Theodore Sturgeon, and, of course, Samuel R. Delany himself.

Includes 9 full-color plates and more than 20 black-and-white illustrations.

The relationship between Hogg and Dhalgren deserves more scholarly attention than it has so far received; the two novels benefit from being read together.-Matthew Cheney, Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form

Samuel R. Delany's influential and divisive 1975 novel Dhalgren gets a full critical treatment in this immersive and comprehensive collection.... Fans of Delaney's classic will want to snap this up. -Publishers Weekly

Edited by: Bill Wood
Imprint: Fantastic Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9781515447726
ISBN 10: 1515447723
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 09 September 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for On Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren

"Samuel R. Delany's influential and divisive 1975 novel Dhalgren gets a full critical treatment in this immersive and comprehensive collection.... Fans of Delaney's classic will want to snap this up. -Publishers Weekly The heart of this collection is the critical analyses. And the critic who does the most to unravel Dhalgren's engimas, of which there are not a few, is K. Leslie Steiner, a.k.a. Samuel R. Delany.... Steiner's ""Some Remarks Toward a Reading of Dhalgren""... is a virtuoso performance that brings Victor Hugo into an examination of the ""interplay between perspective, perception, distortion, and architecture""; clues us in as to why all Kid recalls from a truck ride is the word artichokes; touches on Viktor Shklovsky's definition of art as a form of defamiliarization-a concept eminently applicable to Bellona; and, among many other things, alerts us, in the event we didn't notice, that Dhalgren contains pastiches of W.H. Auden, Rainier Maria Rilke, and Paul Valery.... Steiner isn't the whole critical show, however. There are outstanding essays by Robert Elliot Fox, Marc Gawron, and Delany scholar Ken James.... By now it should be clear that On Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren is a book for fans of Delany's most controversial novel. -Vincent Czyz, The Arts Fuse"