Intersections
Subtitle: essays on Richard Powers
By: edited by Stephen J. Burn and Peter Dempsey.
Contributors: Burn, Stephen.; Dempsey, Peter, 1956-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781564785084
Subjects: Powers, Richard, -- 1957- -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: August Sander and Three farmers on their way to a dance / Anca Cristofovici; title: Stepping into history : Prisoner's dilemma / Sven Birkerts; title: Just behind the billboard : the instability of Prisoner's dilemma / Scott Hermanson; title: Thirty two short paragraphs about The gold bug variations / Barry Lewis; title: The rhetoric of the genetic post card : writing and reading in The gold bug variations / Patti White; title: Richard Powers's ghosts / Stephen J. Burn; title: Passionate pathography : narrative as pharmakon in Operation wandering soul / David Cowart; title: The sufficiency of code : Galatea 2.2 and the necessity of embodiment / Jon Adams; title: Astride the two cultures : a letter to Richard Powers, updated / Daniel C. Dennett; title: The business of Gain / Paul Maliszewski; title: Powers world : refuge and reentry in Plowing the dark / Trey Strecker; title: Little knots, tied in the clothing of time : The time of our singing as a dual-time narrative / Joseph Dewey; title: To find the soul, it is necessary to lose it : neuroscience, disability, and the epigraph to The echo maker / Jenell Johnson; title: Afterthoughts on The echo maker / Joseph Tabbi; title: The story of the self : The echo maker and neurological realism / Charles B. Harris; title: Powers of the facsimile : a Turing test on science and literature / Bruno Latour; title: Narrating technology / Carter Scholz; title: Making the rounds / Richard Powers.