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Philip K. Dick : Canonical Writer of the Digital Age by Lejla Kucukalic (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415887771

ISBN-139780415887779

eBay Product ID (ePID)92612324

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePhilip K. Dick : Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

Publication Year2010

SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy, General, American / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorLejla Kucukalic

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length6 in

Item Width9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813.54

Table Of ContentChapter 1: Introduction: Philip K. Dick, Canonical Writer of the Digital Age Chapter 2: Biography of a Writer Chapter 3: Martian Time Slip: "The Mindset of Otherness" Chapter 4: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: "Mechanical Universe and Its Discontents" Chapter 5: A Maze of Death: "Life Is A Dream, But Is It Better That Way?" Chapter 6: A Scanner Darkly: "The Reel Identity" Chapter 7: The Search for Truth as an Antidote for Suffering in Valis

SynopsisKucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture. Evaluating five novels that span Dick's career--from Martian Time Slip (1964) to Valis (1981)--Kucukalic explores the the intersections of identity, narrative, and technology in order to ask two central, but uncharted "Dickian" questions: What is reality? and What is human?, Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows that the author is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture