Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter write by Gabriel Mckee. This book was released on 2004. Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at communicating them in published works, drawing on Dick's fiction as well as his private journals and personal correspondence
Theology and Science Fiction
Theology and Science Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and Science Fiction write by James F. McGrath. This book was released on 2016-09-22. Theology and Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the difference between a god and a powerful alien? Can an android have a soul, or be considered a person with rights? Can we imagine biblical stories being retold in the distant future on planets far from Earth? Whether your interest is in Christianity in the future, or the Jedi in the present--and whether your interest in the Jedi is focused on real-world adherents or the fictional religion depicted on the silver screen--this book will help you explore the intersection between theology and science fiction across a range of authors and stories, topics and questions. Throughout this volume, James McGrath probes how science fiction explores theological themes, and vice versa, making the case (in conversation with some of your favorite stories, TV shows, and movies) that the answers to humanity's biggest questions are best sought by science fiction and theology together as a collaborative effort.
The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick
The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick write by Umberto Rossi. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philip K. Dick was one of the most popular science fiction novelists of the 20th century, but the contradictory and wily writer has troubled critics who attempt encompassing explanations of his work. This book examines Dick's writing through the lens of ontological uncertainty, providing a comparative map of his oeuvre, tracing both the interior connections between books and his allusive intertextuality. Topics covered include time travel, alternate worlds, androids and simulacra, finite subjective realities and schizophrenia. Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick's body of work.
Stranger America
Stranger America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stranger America write by Josh Toth. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Stranger America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in America’s aesthetic production, finally locating a potential narrative strategy for circumnavigating them. Toth’s central focus is, simply, strangeness—or those characters who adamantly resist being fixed in any given category of identity. As with the theorists employed (Nancy, i ek, Derrida, Freud, Hegel), the subjects and literature considered are as encompassing as possible: from the work of Herman Melville, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen to that of Philip K. Dick, Woody Allen, Larry David, and Bob Dylan; from the rise of nativism in the early twentieth century to object-oriented ontology and the twenty-first-century zombie craze; from ragtime and the introduction of sound in American cinema to the exhaustion of postmodern metafiction. Toth argues that American literature, music, film, and television can show us the path toward a new ethic, one in which we organize identity around the stranger rather than resorting to tactics of pure exclusion or inclusion. Ultimately, he provides a new narrative approach to otherness that seeks to realize a truly democratic form of community.
The Science Fiction Mythmakers
The Science Fiction Mythmakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science Fiction Mythmakers write by Jennifer Simkins. This book was released on 2016-09-13. The Science Fiction Mythmakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity's place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy. This book considers the significance of this confluence through an examination of myths in the writings of H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert. Presenting fresh insights into their works, the author brings to light the tendency of science fiction narratives to reaffirm spiritual myths.
