Samuel R Delany
Biographic Data
| ID | 308369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel R Delany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel R |
| FAMILY NAME | Delany |
| SIGNATURE | DELANY S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor Emeritus, Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Encountering Ulysses
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition
Samuel R. Delany's landmark work of urban studies, *Times Square Red, Times Square Blue*, offered a groundbreaking analysis of the social and sexual dynamics of New York City's Times Square before its Disneyfication. This 20th-anniversary edition revisits Delany's incisive critique of urban gentrification and its impact on marginalized communities. Delany explores the concept of "contact relations," the informal, spontaneous interactions fostered…
Afterword
Afterword Samuel R. Delany Nathan Grant and Terry Rowden have been kind enough to send me the papers in this issue. I have read them over. There is much intelligence here and a great deal of work, as there is in their own organizing and realization of such a labor-intensive enterprise as a special issue of African American Review, with all the hindrances and hurdles that had to be overcome. But overcome them they did. I am honored, humbled, and i…
A Lost Lady and Modernism, a Novelist's Overview
Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary
From Shoat Rumblin His Sensations and Ideas
No advertisements, announcements, or title cards hung beside the door. Torn off along the bottom, from brown twine a six-by-eight-inch piece of shirt cardboard dangled inside the glass. On it written in blue magic marker
An Interview with Samuel R. Delany
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
Shorter views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary
Longer Views: Extended Essays
Reading is a many-layered process -- like writing, observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo award-winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, challenges what he calls hard-edged boundaries of meaning by going beyond the customary limits of the genre in which he's writing. By radically reworking the essay form, can explore and express the many layers of his thinking abou…
Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Samuel Delany
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics
From Phallos
from Phallos! Samuel R. Delany (bio) [On moving to New York City’s Greenwhich Village from Bethynia, New York, a recent college graduate, Adrian Rome (the narrator), discovers an anonymous, paperback, gay, pornographic novel Phallos! among some old books left in his new apartment. With his friend Harvey, he goes to dinner at the home of an elderly black writer, Lewy, who turns out to be (“more or less”) the novel’s author. Curious to read it, Adr…
Erik, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling
Street Talk/Straight Talk
Research Article| July 01 1991 Street Talk/Straight Talk Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany is a science fiction writer and acting chair of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Massachusetts. Currently he is at work on a study of Donna Haraway entitled “Twilight in the Rue Morgue.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1991) 3 (2): 21–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3-2-…
On Triton and Other Matters: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany
The Semiology of Silence
The Tale of Rumor and Desire
Interview: Samuel R. Delany
From The Mummer's Tale
Reflections on “Reflections on SF Criticism”
Some Reflections on SF Criticism
Samuel Delany. Remarques sur la critique de science-fiction.—La terminologie de la critique de SF est ordinairement un emprunt à celle de la littérature canonique, peu apte dès lors à rendre compte de sa position paralittéraire. L’auteur examine l’origine et la portée de certaines formules: “le sentiment d’émerveillement”, “une littérature d’idées”, “la nouvelle vague”, “cognition et distanciation”, “connaissance et sublimation”: il suggère que l…
Reflections on Historical Models in Modern English Language Science Fiction
Teaching Science Fiction: Unique Challenges (Proceedings of the MLA Special Session, New York, December 1978)
The Order of “Chaos”
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Teaching Science Fiction: Unique Challenges (Proceedings of the MLA Special Session, New York, December 1978)
The Order of “Chaos”
Reflections on Historical Models in Modern English Language Science Fiction
Some Reflections on SF Criticism
Samuel Delany. Remarques sur la critique de science-fiction.—La terminologie de la critique de SF est ordinairement un emprunt à celle de la littérature canonique, peu apte dès lors à rendre compte de sa position paralittéraire. L’auteur examine l’origine et la portée de certaines formules: “le sentiment d’émerveillement”, “une littérature d’idées”, “la nouvelle vague”, “cognition et distanciation”, “connaissance et sublimation”: il suggère que l…
Reflections on “Reflections on SF Criticism”
From The Mummer's Tale
Interview: Samuel R. Delany
The Semiology of Silence
The Tale of Rumor and Desire
On Triton and Other Matters: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany
Erik, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling
Street Talk/Straight Talk
Research Article| July 01 1991 Street Talk/Straight Talk Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany is a science fiction writer and acting chair of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Massachusetts. Currently he is at work on a study of Donna Haraway entitled “Twilight in the Rue Morgue.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1991) 3 (2): 21–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3-2-…
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics
From Phallos
from Phallos! Samuel R. Delany (bio) [On moving to New York City’s Greenwhich Village from Bethynia, New York, a recent college graduate, Adrian Rome (the narrator), discovers an anonymous, paperback, gay, pornographic novel Phallos! among some old books left in his new apartment. With his friend Harvey, he goes to dinner at the home of an elderly black writer, Lewy, who turns out to be (“more or less”) the novel’s author. Curious to read it, Adr…
Shorter views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary
Longer Views: Extended Essays
Reading is a many-layered process -- like writing, observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo award-winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, challenges what he calls hard-edged boundaries of meaning by going beyond the customary limits of the genre in which he's writing. By radically reworking the essay form, can explore and express the many layers of his thinking abou…
Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Samuel Delany
From Shoat Rumblin His Sensations and Ideas
No advertisements, announcements, or title cards hung beside the door. Torn off along the bottom, from brown twine a six-by-eight-inch piece of shirt cardboard dangled inside the glass. On it written in blue magic marker
An Interview with Samuel R. Delany
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary
Afterword
Afterword Samuel R. Delany Nathan Grant and Terry Rowden have been kind enough to send me the papers in this issue. I have read them over. There is much intelligence here and a great deal of work, as there is in their own organizing and realization of such a labor-intensive enterprise as a special issue of African American Review, with all the hindrances and hurdles that had to be overcome. But overcome them they did. I am honored, humbled, and i…
A Lost Lady and Modernism, a Novelist's Overview
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition
Samuel R. Delany's landmark work of urban studies, *Times Square Red, Times Square Blue*, offered a groundbreaking analysis of the social and sexual dynamics of New York City's Times Square before its Disneyfication. This 20th-anniversary edition revisits Delany's incisive critique of urban gentrification and its impact on marginalized communities. Delany explores the concept of "contact relations," the informal, spontaneous interactions fostered…
Encountering Ulysses
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