Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 582 g
Infinite Regressions
Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 582 g
Reihe: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
ISBN: 978-1-032-68700-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Auto/biographical literature has been theorized with metaphors that reflect its inherent instability as a form of truth-telling. The best auto/biographies exhibit a metanarrational awareness of this instability and favor the art of writing over the alleged “truth” of a life. The autobiographical nature of Philip K. Dick’s novels and stories has spawned a sizable body of biographical texts, many of which are creative performances that give primacy to the artistic impulse. Most critical biographies about Dick, on the other hand, do not account for this dynamic; instead, they read the fiction as a symptom of the author’s notorious drug use and schizoid tendencies. Bolstered by scholarship on Auto/Biography and Science Fiction Studies as well as psychoanalytic theory, The Auto/Biographies of Philip K. Dick: Infinite Regressions surveys and analyzes the proliferation of “biotexts” written about the science-fiction icon, who consistently eroded the boundary between lived and imagined experience, turning his own precarious sense of reality into the generative engine for his fiction and the biographical mythology that continues to orbit his work.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
INTRODUCTION: Speculative Biography and the Art of Truth
We Phildickian Psychonauts
Infinite Regressions, or, the Game of Infinity
Auto/Biography, Science Fiction, and PKD Studies
Which Way to Inner Space?
Hermeneutics of Speculation
1. UMBRELLAS OF LIGHT: Biographical Spores
Later Life and Death-Writings
The Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter
“In the World He Was Writing About: The Life of Philip K. Dick”
2. DIVINE LIVES: Literary Biographies
“Literary” Biografriendships
Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
3. BALLARDIAN EXPLORATIONS OF PHILDICKIAN INNER SPACE: Psychobiographies
Asylum Mundi
Philip K. Dick: In his Own Words Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament
To the High Castle, Philip K. Dick: A Life, 1928-1962
Philip K. Dick on Film Variable Man: The Lives of Philip K. Dick
A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick
4. OF WIVES & DARK-HAIRED GIRLS: Memoirs
Records of Affection and Disaffection
The Search for Philip K. Dick
Remembering Firebright: My Life with Philip K. Dick
The Other Side of Philip K. Dick: A Tale of Two Friends
5. CARTESIAN PLAY: Creative Life-Writings
Deus Deceptors
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography
“The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick”
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas
The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick
6. HERMENEUTIC MONOMANIA: Letters, Autobiographika, and the Exegesis
The Autobiographical Abyss
The Dark-Haired Girl
Autobiografiction
A Scanner Darkly
Radio Free Albemuth and VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Übertext
In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
CODA
The Splintered Self
