Description
Book SynopsisOnce the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick’s work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- 1. Philip K. Dick and the Postmodern
- 2. Complications of Humanism and Postmodernism
- 3. Static and Kinetic in Dick’s Political Unconscious
- Part II
- 4. Mired in the Sex War: Dick’s Realist Novels of the Fifties
- 5. The Short Stories: Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family
- 6. The Man in the High Castle: The Reasonableness and Madness of History
- 7. Eating and Being Eaten: Dangerous Deities and Depleted Consumers
- 8. Critique and Fantasy in Martian Time-Slip and Clans of the Alphane Moon
- 9. Critical Reason and Romantic Idealism in Martian Time-Slip
- 10. A Scanner Darkly: Postmodern Society and the End of Difference
- 11. Gestures, Anecdotes, Visions: Formal Recourses of Humanism
- 12. Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in Valis
- Works Cited
- Index
