Philip K. Dick
Subtitle: exhilaration and terror of the postmodern
By: Christopher Palmer.
Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;; [26]
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Dick, Philip K. -- Criticism and interpretation.; Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-248) and index.