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Philip K. Dick : contemporary critical interpretations

Author: Samuel J Umland
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 63
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Philip K Dick; Philip K Dick
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Samuel J Umland
ISBN: 0313292957 9780313292958
OCLC Number: 30814973
Description: viii, 228 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Towards a theory of paranoia : the science fiction of Philip K. Dick / Carl Freedman -- Dianoia/paranoia : Dick's double "impostor" / Neil Easterbrook -- Worlds of chance and counterfeit : Dick, Lem, and the preestablished cacophony / Karl Wessel -- Philip K. Dick and the nuclear family / Christopher Palmer -- To flee from Dionysus : enthousiasmos from "Upon the dull Earth" to VALIS / Samuel J. Umland -- The Swiss connection : psychological systems in the novels of Philip K. Dick / Anthony Wolk -- Unrequited love in We can build you / Rebecca A. Umland -- "What is this sickness?" : "schizophrenia" and We can build you / Gregg Rickman -- "Man everywhere in chains" : Dick, Rousseau, and The penultimate truth / Merritt Abrash -- Two cases of conscience : loyalty and race in The crack in space and Counter-clock world / Jake Jakaitis -- Chinese finger-traps or "a perturbation in the reality field" : paradox as conversion in Philip K. Dick's fiction / Michael Feehan.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 63
Responsibility: edited by Samuel J. Umland.

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