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Christopher Palmer discusses the SF of Philip K. Dick from two angles: historical and formal. The first is a consideration of his fiction as a depiction of and response to postmodernity, and investigates a clash between humanism and postmodernism, which is seen as the inscription of Dicl's own historical predicament. The second considers Dick's form and genre. The intention is to braoden our understanding of Dick's fiction and to emphasize the immediacy of his brand of SF. The first three chapters provide an overview of Dick's SF style, while the remaining nine chapters concentrate on particular stories and novels, like "The Man in the High Castle", "Martian Time-Slip", "A Scanner Darkly", "Valis" and the short stories.

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

About the Author :
Christopher Palmer is a Research Associate in the School of English at La Trobe University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780853236184
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Series Title: 27 Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0853236186
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern


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