Philip K. Dick exhilaration and terror of the postmodern
Once 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. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting re...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2003.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 26. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42059616*spi |
| Sumario: | Once 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. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable relations, uncertain moralities. 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. Christopher Palmer analyses the puzzling and dazzling effects of Dick's fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dick's work is seen as the inscription of his own historical predicament, the clash between humanism and postmodernism being played out in the complex forms of the fiction. The problem is never resolved, but Dick's ways of imagining it become steadily more ingenious and challenging. |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (x, 259 p.) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781846313769 |
