Philip K. Dick
Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20005058 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Palmer (0000-0002-6182-9037, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 259 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Philip K. Dick (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236184.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4234072409 |
| Open Library | OL3345774M |
| ISBN | 9780853236184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the science-fiction 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. This book examines a wide range of Dick's work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. It 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
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Humanism · Literature · Postmodernism · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · American Horror tales · American Science fiction · Criticism and interpretation · Dick, Philip K · History and criticism · Horror tales · Horror tales, American · Horror tales, history and criticism · Philip K. Dick · philip k. Dick (1928-1982) · Postmodernism (literature) · Science fiction · Science fiction, american · Science fiction, history and criticism · united states
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |