Lejla Kucukalic

Philip K. Dick (eBook, PDF)

Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135896652
• Artikelnr.: 42977602

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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