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World According to Philip K. Dick by Stefan Schlensag (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-101137414588
ISBN-139781137414588
eBay Product ID (ePID)204284295
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXii, 234 Pages
Publication NameWorld According to Philip K. Dick
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy, Modern / 20th Century, General, American / General, Semiotics & Theory
TypeTextbook
AuthorStefan Schlensag
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight146 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-049661
Reviews"The story of this collection of essays begins in 2012, a productive year for Philip K. Dick scholarship. ... I would recommend to any scholar or student who wishes to tackle the issue of madness in Dick, and I hope it may inspire further research in that direction. ... is a must-read for PKD scholars, and might be even more productive if approached as a series of articulate suggestions of future lines of research within and through Dick's oeuvre." (Umberto Rossi, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 43, 2016)
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Third Reality: On the Persistence of Philip K. Dick; Alexander Dunst PART I: HISTORY 1. Diagnosing Dick; Roger Luckhurst 2. 'The Shock of Dysrecognition': Biopolitical Subjects and Drugs in Dick's Science Fiction; Chris Rudge 3. Cold-Pac Politics: Ubik's Cold War Imaginary; Fabienne Collignon: PART II: THEORY 4. Between Scanner and Object: Drugs and Ontology in A Scanner Darkly; Marcus Boon 5. From Here to California: Philip K. Dick, The Simulacra, and Post-War Integrations of Germany; Laurence Rickels 6. Remember Tomorrow: Biopolitics of Time in the Early Works of Philip K. Dick; Yari Lanci: PART III: ADAPTATION 7. Dick without the Dick: Adaptation Studies and Slipstream Cinema; Mark Bould 8. Mr. Tagomi's Planet: Philip K. Dick and Japanese Speculative Fiction; Takayuki Tatsumi 9. On Three Comics Adaptations of Philip K. Dick; Stefan Schlensag PART IV: EXEGESIS 10. The Hymn of Philip K. Dick: Reading, Writing, and Gnosis in the 'Exegesis'; Erik Davis 11. Stairway to Eleusis, or: Perennially Philip K. Dick; Richard Doyle 12. From Exegesis to Ecology; James Burton Selected Bibliography Index
SynopsisAs the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in over two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the America's most influential authors. With contributions by major voices in literary and cultural studies, the book thoroughly situates Dick in the history of the twentieth century and includes sections on cultural theory, adaptation studies, as well as the first in-depth discussion of his last major work, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, only published in 2011. Dick's academic reputation and general popularity continue to grow. A steady flow of films based on his novels and short stories, and several biographies and critical monographs over the last decade, testify to his global appeal. As the publication of three volumes of selected novels in the prestigious Library of America series and a 900-page hardback edition of his Exegesis show, Dick is now considered a canonical author in US literature. The essays commissioned for this volume examine novel aspects of Dick's oeuvre and revise our understanding of a writer who is now seen as a major literary and intellectual figure and often taken as representative of science fiction at large. At the same time, the conceptual and methodological arguments put forward by the authors -from Mark Bould's analysis of 'slipstream cinema' and Laurence Rickels' theorization of psychopathy to Marcus Boon's ontology of the withdrawn object - will be of interest to a wide audience in literary and cultural studies., As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.
LC Classification NumberPN770-779
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