Dialect, Grapholect, and Story: Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker as Science Fiction.
"Riddley Walker" is a very good mainstream novel that attempts and achieves marvelous things in language. Since it is set some to thousand years in the future, after a nuclear holocaust has wiped out civilization, it is also a science fiction novel. With respect to the language, the sf critic would...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 391 - 418 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Nov2000
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