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Author Vest, Jason P., 1972-

Title The postmodern humanism of Philip K. Dick / Jason P. Vest
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 227 pages)
Contents Introduction. The world Dick made: science fiction, humanism, and postmodern literature -- The metamorphosis of science fiction: Kafka, Dick, and postmodern humanism -- Parallel minds, alternate worlds: Borges, Dick, and the politics of oppression -- Divine textualities: Calvino, Dick, and authoring creation -- Time, love, and narcosis: the importance of now wait for last year -- Conclusion. The postmodern humanist: Philip K. Dick in the twenty-first century
Summary Annotation In The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick, Jason Vest examines how Dick adapted the conventions of science fiction and postmodernism to reflect humanist concerns about the difficulties of maintaining identity, agency, and autonomy in the latter half of the 20th century. He also explores literary relationship to Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index
Notes English
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Subject Dick, Philip K. -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dick, Philip K. fast
Dick, Philip K. 1928-1982 gnd
Dick, Philip K. -- analys och tolkning. sao
Dick, Philip K. swd
Subject Postmodernism (Literature)
Humanism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Humanism in literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literatur
Postmoderne
Postmodernism (litteratur)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810866973
0810866978
1282521047
9781282521049
9786612521041
661252104X