Philip K. Dick : exhilaration and terror of the postmodern
Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick’s work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels.
Print Book, English, 2003 (2007 printing)
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2003 (2007 printing)
Criticism, interpretation, etc
[xii], 259 pages ; 24 cm.
9780853236184, 9780853236283, 0853236186, 0853236283
223708837
PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPart I1. Philip K. Dick and the Postmodern2. Complications of Humanism and Postmodernism3. Static and Kinetic in Dick’s Political UnconsciousPart II4. Mired in the Sex War: Dick’s Realist Novels of the Fifties5. The Short Stories: Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family6. The Man in the High Castle: The Reasonableness and Madness of History7. Eating and Being Eaten: Dangerous Deities and Depleted Consumers8. Critique and Fantasy in Martian Time-Slip and Clans of the Alphane Moon9. Critical Reason and Romantic Idealism in Martian Time-Slip10. A Scanner Darkly: Postmodern Society and the End of Difference11. Gestures, Anecdotes, Visions: Formal Recourses of Humanism12. Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in ValisWorks CitedIndex