Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Philip K. Dick and the postmodern -- Complications of humanism and postmodernism -- Static and kinetic in Dick's political unconscious -- Mired in the sex war: Dick's realist novels of the fifties -- The short stories: Philip K. Dick and the nuclear family -- The man in the high castle: the reasonableness and madness of history -- Eating and being eaten: dangerous deities and depleted consumers -- Critique and fantasy in Martian time-slip and Clans of the Alphane moon -- Critical reason and romantic idealism in Martian time-slip -- A scanner darkly: postmodern society and the end of difference -- Gestures, anecdotes, visions: formal recourses of humanism -- Postmodernism and the birth of the author in Valis.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The author discusses Dick's SF writing from two perspectives. The first is a consideration of Dick's fiction as a depiction of and response to postmodernity whilst the second considers Dick's form and genre in a broader, more general sense.
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Title
Philip K. Dick.
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0853236283
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dick, Philip K.-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dick, Philip K.-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dick, Philip K.-- Critique et interprétation.
Dick, Philip K.
Dick, Philip K.
Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Horror tales, American-- History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States.
Science fiction, American-- History and criticism.
Science-fiction américaine-- Histoire et critique.