Dick - Philip K. Dick canonical writer of the digital age

Melvilles Monumental Imagination

Ian S. Maloney

Writing Out of All the Camps

J.M. Coetzees Narratives of Displacement

Laura Wright

Here and Now

The Politics of Social Space in D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

Youngjoo Son

Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day

Philip Larkin and the Plain Style

Tijana Stojkovi

Queer Times

Christopher Isherwoods Modernity

Jamie M. Carr

Edith Whartons Evolutionary Conception

Darwinian Allegory in Her Major Novels

Paul J. Ohler

The End of Learning

Milton and Education

Thomas Festa

Reading and Mapping Hardys Roads

Scott Rode

Creating Yoknapatawpha

Readers and Writers in Faulkners Fiction

Owen Robinson

No Place for Home

Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

Jay Ellis

The Machine that Sings

Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body

Gordon A. Tapper

Influential Ghosts

A Study of Audens Sources

Rachel Wetzsteon

D.H. Lawrences Border Crossing

Colonialism in His Travel Writings and Leadership Novels

Eunyoung Oh

Dorothy Wordsworths Ecology

Kenneth R. Cervelli

Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jarom Lyle McDonald

Shelleys Intellectual System and its Epicurean Background

Michael A. Vicario

Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

Paul L. Fortunato

Miltons Uncertain Eden

Understanding Place in Paradise Lost

Andrew Mattison

Henry Miller and Religion

Thomas Nesbit

The Magic Lantern

Representation of the Double in Dickens

Maria Cristina Paganoni

The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

Elise A. Martucci

James Merrill

Knowing Innocence

Reena Sastri

Yeats and Theosophy

Ken Monteith

Pynchon and the Political

Samuel Thomas

Paul Austers Postmodernity

Brendan Martin

Editing Emily Dickinson

The Production of an Author

Lena Christensen

Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

John Cant

Our Scene is London

Ben Jonsons City and the Space of the Author

James D. Mardock

Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

Jack Siler

Politics and Aesthetics in

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Joanne Campbell Tidwell

Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad

Love Between the Lines

Richard J. Ruppel

Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals

Kathryn Prince

Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative

Whats aught but as tis valued?

Peter F. Grav

Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language

Stefan Holander

Milton and the Spiritual Reader

Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England

David Ainsworth

Everybodys America

Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism

David Witzling

Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood

Mapping the World in Household Words

Sabine Clemm

Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison

Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

Philip K. Dick

Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

Lejla Kucukalic

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Kucukalic, Lejla.
Philip K. Dick : canonical writer of the digital age / by Lejla Kucukalic.
p. cm. (Studies in major literary authors)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-96242-1 (acid-free paper)
1. Dick, Philip K.Criticism and interpretation. 2. Science fiction, American History and criticism. I. Title.
PS3554.I3Z74 2009
813.54dc22 2008023501

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ISBN10: 0-415-96242-0 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-88684-4 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-96242-1 (hbk)

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I am an avid reader of acknowledgments, even in books whose contents I only briefly scan. There is something attractive and satisfying in discovering the variety of ways in which authors express their thanks; these brief statements give the author a chance to break out of their solitude and acknowledge the collective that supported them. So it is with pleasure that I express my own thanks.

My gratitude goes to the wonderful group of scholars, editors, librarians, friends, and family who have nurtured my work on this book and made it possible. My advisor and role model, Professor J.A. Leo Lemay, shared with me his vast knowledge of American Literature and of writing while I was working on my doctorate, the basis for this book. My other valuable reader, Professor Lois Potter, ventured graciously into the curious subject of science fiction and my even more curious treatment of it, and stayed there with me, patiently providing her comments; Susan Goodman and Richard Doyle offered their time and expertise to the initial project. To this list of scholars I must add Darko Suvin, as I am grateful to him for looking at some very early drafts of my work and encouraging me to continue.

In the process of researching and writing, I received an enormous amount of help from a number of librarians and curators. I am most grateful to Linda Stein, University of Delaware Library, for her enthusiastic support of my work on Philip K. Dick; to Sharon Perry, California State University, Fullerton, Special Collections Library, for resourcefulness and efficiency while I worked on the Philip K. Dick Papers; and the staff of Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center for considerate assistance while I worked with the Mercury Press papers and several other collections and books there. Librarians at Indiana Universitys Lilly Library and the Huntington Library also provided beneficial assistance.