Name: Philip k. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy) (en Inglés)
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Author: Samuel Umland
ISBN: 9780313292958

portada Philip k. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Praeger

Autor

Samuel Umland

Año

1995

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

238

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780313292958

N° edición

Categorías

Ficción, novelistas y prosistas
Ciencia ficción
Fantasía

Philip k. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy) (en Inglés)

Samuel Umland (Autor) · Praeger · Tapa Dura

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This book contains 11 essays and a comprehensive bibliography. The essays reveal the extent to which Philip K. Dick's personal obsessions pre-figured postmodernist concerns with humanity's self-alienation, cultural and personal paranoia, and the politics of simulation, deceit, and self-deception. The contributors reveal how Dick's ontological concerns, stated in his repeated questioning of What is real?, are also political concerns. Thus, they examine the philosophical and religious foundations on which his work rests, offering much-needed arguments which reveal both his philosophical depth and the extent to which he drew from esoteric and occult religions. His cultural critique also receives significant exposition, as the contributors reveal how Dick's fiction enacts the larger cultural struggles of cold war America, with its conflicting private visions and public realities, and its personal and political loyalties. The contributors argue for the significance of heretofore neglected or marginalized texts of Dick as well, including in their discussions many early short stories from the early 1950s and neglected novels of the mid-1960s, arguing that there is a need to understand how Dick shaped (or misshaped) his fictions so as to reimagine the life of his society.