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BL
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1014454
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b768824
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| Main Entry
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Palmer, Christopher,1948-
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Philip K. Dick : : exhilaration and terror of the postmodern /\ Christopher Palmer.
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| Publication Statement
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Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;; [26]
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
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| ISBN
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1417568143
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: 1781380651
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: 1846313767
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: 9781417568147
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: 9781781380659
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: 9781846313769
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0853236186
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0853236283
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9780853236184
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9780853236283
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and index.
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| Contents
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Philip K. Dick and the postmodern -- Complications of humanism and postmodernism -- Static and kinetic in Dick's political unconscious -- Mired in the sex war: Dick's realist novels of the fifties -- The short stories: Philip K. Dick and the nuclear family -- The man in the high castle: the reasonableness and madness of history -- Eating and being eaten: dangerous deities and depleted consumers -- Critique and fantasy in Martian time-slip and Clans of the Alphane moon -- Critical reason and romantic idealism in Martian time-slip -- A scanner darkly: postmodern society and the end of difference -- Gestures, anecdotes, visions: formal recourses of humanism -- Postmodernism and the birth of the author in Valis.
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The author discusses Dick's SF writing from two perspectives. The first is a consideration of Dick's fiction as a depiction of and response to postmodernity whilst the second considers Dick's form and genre in a broader, more general sense.
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Dick, Philip K.-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dick, Philip K.-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dick, Philip K.-- Critique et interprétation.
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Dick, Philip K.
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Dick, Philip K.
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Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982
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Horror tales, American-- History and criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States.
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Science fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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Science-fiction américaine-- Histoire et critique.
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Horror tales, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Science fiction, American.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3554.I3Z785 2003eb
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HU 3461rvk
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HU 3461.rvk
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