The World According to Philip K. Dick [electronic resource] /
Dunst, A.editor.
Schlensag, S.editor.
As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Third Reality - On the Persistence of Philip K. Dick; Part I: History; 1 Diagnosing Dick; 2 'The Shock of Dysrecognition': Biopolitical Subjects and Drugs in Dick's Science Fiction; 3 Cold-Pac Politics: Ubik's Cold War Imaginary; Part II: Theory; 4 Between Scanner and Object: Drugs and Ontology in Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly; 5 From Here to California: Philip K. Dick, The Simulacra and the Integration of 'Germany'; 6 Remember Tomorrow: Biopolitics of Time in the Early Works of Philip K. Dick
Part III: Adaptation7 Dick without the Dick: Adaptation Studies and Slipstream Cinema; 8 Mr Tagomi's Planet: Philip K. Dick and Japanese Speculative Fiction; 9 On Three Comics Adaptations of Philip K. Dick; Part IV: Exegesis; 10 The Hymn of Philip K. Dick: Reading, Writing and Gnosis in the 'Exegesis'; 11 Stairway to Eleusis, or: Perennially Philip K. Dick; 12 From Exegesis to Ecology; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.
Dick, Philip K.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literature-History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Literary History.