1st Edition

Philip K. Dick Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

By Lejla Kucukalic Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture. Evaluating... Read more

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

Biography

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.