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Understanding Contemporary American Literature Ser.: Understanding Philip K. Dick by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Eric Carl Link (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
ISBN-101570038554
ISBN-139781570038556
eBay Product ID (ePID)73349269
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameUnderstanding Philip K. Dick
LanguageEnglish
SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy, General, American / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorMatthew J. Bruccoli, Eric Carl Link
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesUnderstanding Contemporary American Literature Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2009-028390
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisThis is a guidebook into the fantastic world of a science fiction legend. Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only increased since his death with the release of numerous feature films based on his work, including ""Blade Runner"", ""Total Recall"", ""Minority Report"", and ""Next"". Viewing his subject as foremost a novelist of ideas, Eric Carl Link surveys Dick's own tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes that give shape and significance to his fiction. Link addresses Dick's efforts to break into the mainstream in the 1950s, his return to science fiction in the 1960s, and his move toward more theologically oriented work in his final two decades. Link finds in Dick's writing an intellectual curiosity that transformed his bizarre pulp extravaganzas into philosophically challenging explorations of reality., A guide to the fantastic world of a science fiction legend Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only increased since his death with the release of numerous feature films and television series based on his work, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and T he Man in the High Castle. In Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link introduces readers to the life, career, and work of this groundbreaking, prolific, and immeasurably influential force in American literature, media culture, and contemporary science fiction. Dick was at times a postmodernist, a mainstream writer, a pulp fiction writer, and often all three simultaneously, but as Link illustrates, he was more than anything else a novelist of ideas. From this vantage point, Link surveys Dick's tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes that give shape and significance to his fiction. Link finds across Dick's writing career an intellectual curiosity that transformed his science fiction novels from bizarre pulp extravaganzas into philosophically challenging explorations of the nature of reality, and it is this depth of vision that continues to garner new audiences and fresh approaches to Dick's genre-defining tales., Philip K Dick (1928-1982) reshaped 20th-century science fiction. Viewing his subject as foremost a novelist of ideas, this book surveys Dick's own tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes that give shape and significance to his fiction.
LC Classification NumberPS3554.I3Z745 2010
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