Samuel Umland: Philip K. Dick | Buch

Cover: 9780313292958 | Philip K. Dick | Contemporary Critical Interpretations | Samuel Umland

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Beschreibung

This book contains 11 essays and a comprehensive bibliography. The essays reveal the extent to which Philip K. Dick's personal obsessions pre-figured postmodernist concerns with humanity's self-alienation, cultural and personal paranoia, and the politics of simulation, deceit, and self-deception. The contributors reveal how Dick's ontological concerns, stated in his repeated questioning of What is real?, are also political concerns. Thus, they examine the philosophical and religious foundations on which his work rests, offering much-needed arguments which reveal both his philosophical depth and the extent to which he drew from esoteric and occult religions. His cultural critique also receives significant exposition, as the contributors reveal how Dick's fiction enacts the larger cultural struggles of cold war America, with its conflicting private visions and public realities, and its personal and political loyalties. The contributors argue for the significance of heretofore neglected or marginalized texts of Dick as well, including in their discussions many early short stories from the early 1950s and neglected novels of the mid-1960s, arguing that there is a need to understand how Dick shaped (or misshaped) his fictions so as to reimagine the life of his society.

Über den Autor

SAMUEL J. UMLAND is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He was educated at schools in Kansas and Nebraska, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is the author of numerous articles on film, film theory, and the teaching of literature, and has written four unproduced screenplays.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Samuel J. Umland
Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick by Carl Freedman
Dianoia/Paranoia: Dick's Double "Impostor" by Neil Easterbrook
Worlds of Chance and Counterfeit: Dick, Lem, and the Preestablished Cacophony by Karl Wessel
Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family by Christopher Palmer
"To Flee from Dionysus": Enthousiasmos from "Upon the Dull Earth" to VALIS by Samuel J. Umland
The Swiss Connection: Psychological Systems in the Novels of Philip K. Dick by Anthony Wolk
Unrequited Love in We Can Build You by Rebecca A. Umland
"What is this sickness?": "Schizophrenia" and We Can Build You by Gregg Rickman
"Man Everywhere in Chains": Dick, Rousseau, and The Penultimate Truth by Merritt Abrash
Two Cases of Conscience: Loyalty and Race in The Crack in Space and Counter-Clock World by Jake Jakaitis
Chinese Finger-traps, or "A Perturbation in the Reality Field": Paradox as Conversion in Philip K. Dick's Fictions by Michael Feehan
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	1995
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780313292958
ISBN-10:	0313292957
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Umland, Samuel
Redaktion:	Umland, Samuel J.
Hersteller:	Praeger
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	240 x 161 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Samuel Umland
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.01.1995
Gewicht:	0,526 kg

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