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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser.: Philip K. Dick : Contemporary Critical Interpretations by Samuel J. Umland (1995, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-100313292957
ISBN-139780313292958
eBay Product ID (ePID)117482
Product Key Features
Number of Pages238 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePhilip K. Dick : Contemporary Critical Interpretations
Publication Year1995
SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorSamuel J. Umland
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesContributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN94-029271
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume NumberNo. 63
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentIntroduction by Samuel J. Umland Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick by Carl Freedman Dianoia/Paranoia: Dick's Double "Impostor" by Neil Easterbrook Worlds of Chance and Counterfeit: Dick, Lem, and the Preestablished Cacophony by Karl Wessel Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family by Christopher Palmer "To Flee from Dionysus": Enthousiasmos from "Upon the Dull Earth" to VALIS by Samuel J. Umland The Swiss Connection: Psychological Systems in the Novels of Philip K. Dick by Anthony Wolk Unrequited Love in We Can Build You by Rebecca A. Umland "What is this sickness?": "Schizophrenia" and We Can Build You by Gregg Rickman "Man Everywhere in Chains": Dick, Rousseau, and The Penultimate Truth by Merritt Abrash Two Cases of Conscience: Loyalty and Race in The Crack in Space and Counter-Clock World by Jake Jakaitis Chinese Finger-traps, or "A Perturbation in the Reality Field": Paradox as Conversion in Philip K. Dick's Fictions by Michael Feehan Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis book contains 11 essays and a comprehensive bibliography. The essays reveal the extent to which Philip K. Dick's personal obsessions pre-figured postmodernist concerns with humanity's self-alienation, cultural and personal paranoia, and the politics of simulation, deceit, and self-deception. The contributors reveal how Dick's ontological concerns, stated in his repeated questioning of What is real?, are also political concerns. Thus, they examine the philosophical and religious foundations on which his work rests, offering much-needed arguments which reveal both his philosophical depth and the extent to which he drew from esoteric and occult religions. His cultural critique also receives significant exposition, as the contributors reveal how Dick's fiction enacts the larger cultural struggles of cold war America, with its conflicting private visions and public realities, and its personal and political loyalties. The contributors argue for the significance of heretofore neglected or marginalized texts of Dick as well, including in their discussions many early short stories from the early 1950s and neglected novels of the mid-1960s, arguing that there is a need to understand how Dick shaped (or misshaped) his fictions so as to reimagine the life of his society.
LC Classification NumberPS3554
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