Philip K. Dick : contemporary critical interpretations
Samuel J. Umland (Editor)
These essays examine the philosophical and religious foundations on which Dick's work rests, offering arguments which reveal both his philosophical depth and the extent to which he drew from esoteric and occult religions. They reveal how his ontological concerns are also political concerns.
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
9780313292958, 0313292957
30814973
Towards a theory of paranoia : the science fiction of Philip K. Dick / Carl Freedman
Dianoia/paranoia : Dick's double "impostor" / Neil Easterbrook
Worlds of chance and counterfeit : Dick, Lem, and the preestablished cacophony / Karl Wessel
Philip K. Dick and the nuclear family / Christopher Palmer
To flee from Dionysus : enthousiasmos from "Upon the dull Earth" to VALIS / Samuel J. Umland
The Swiss connection : psychological systems in the novels of Philip K. Dick / Anthony Wolk
Unrequited love in We can build you / Rebecca A. Umland
"What is this sickness?" : "schizophrenia" and We can build you / Gregg Rickman
"Man everywhere in chains" : Dick, Rousseau, and The penultimate truth / Merritt Abrash
Two cases of conscience : loyalty and race in The crack in space and Counter-clock world / Jake Jakaitis
Chinese finger-traps or "a perturbation in the reality field" : paradox as conversion in Philip K. Dick's fiction / Michael Feehan
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