Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780415887779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 178 str.

Lejla Kucukalic;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows that the author is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Philip K. Dick, Canonical Writer of the Digital Age  Chapter 2: Biography of a Writer  Chapter 3: Martian Time Slip: "The Mindset of Otherness"  Chapter 4: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: "Mechanical Universe and Its Discontents"  Chapter 5: A Maze of Death: "Life Is A Dream, But Is It Better That Way?"  Chapter 6: A Scanner Darkly: "The Reel Identity"  Chapter 7: The Search for Truth as an Antidote for Suffering in Valis

O autorze

Lejla Kucukalic received her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Delaware. She is currently translating the Bosnian-Herzegovinian novel, It Happened in July, about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica. Professor Kucukalic is teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York.