Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Liverpool University Press

Once solely the possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable relations, uncertain moralities. Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dicks work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. Christopher Palmer analyzes the puzzling and dazzling effects of Dicks fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dicks 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 Dicks ways of imagining it become steadily more ingenious and challenging.

Authors: ilip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Liverpool University Press – Liverpool Scie

Date: 2003

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Language: English

ISBN / ASIN: 0853236186

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