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Philip K. Dick : exhilaration and terror of the postmodern /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palmer, Christopher, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Series:Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 26.
Subjects:
Dick, Philip K. > Criticism and interpretation.
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Dick, Philip K. > Critique et interprétation.
Science-fiction américaine > Histoire et critique.
Dick, Philip K.
Horror tales, American.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Science fiction, American.
United States.
Dick, Philip K., > 1928-1982.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Philip K. Dick and the Postmodern
  • Complications of Humanism and Postmodernism
  • Static and Kinetic in Dick's Political Unconscious
  • Mired in the Sex War: Dick's Realist Novels of the Fifties
  • The Short Stories: Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family
  • The Man in the High Castle: The Reasonableness and Madness of History
  • Eating and Being Eaten: Dangerous Deities and Depleted Consumers
  • Critique and Fantasy in Martian Time-Slip and Clans of the Alphane Moon
  • Critical Reason and Romantic Idealism in Martian Time-Slip
  • A Scanner Darkly: Postmodern Society and the End of Difference
  • Gestures, Anecdotes, Visions: Formal Recourses of Humanism
  • Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in Valis.