Philip K Dick

Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern

By: Christopher Palmer

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Hardcover | 1 July 2003

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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 Dick' s work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. Christopher Palmer analyzes 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.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Literary Studies of Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Fiction Science Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii

Philip K. Dick and the Postmodern	p. 3
Complications of Humanism and Postmodernism	p. 30
Static and Kinetic in Dick's Political Unconscious	p. 44

Mired in the Sex War: Dick's Realist Novels of the Fifties	p. 67
The Short Stories: Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family	p. 85
The Man in the High Castle: The Reasonableness and Madness of History	p. 109
Eating and Being Eaten: Dangerous Deities and Depleted Consumers	p. 133
Critique and Fantasy in Martian Time-Slip and Clans of the Alphane Moon	p. 146
Critical Reason and Romantic Idealism in Martian Time-Slip	p. 162
A Scanner Darkly: Postmodern Society and the End of Difference	p. 177
Gestures, Anecdotes, Visions: Formal Recourses of Humanism	p. 201
Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in Valis	p. 223
Works Cited	p. 238
Index	p. 249
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