In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced in high art but also, strikingly, in the mass culture of puppets, horror-fantasy literature, and cyborgs: from the works of Kleist, Poe, Musil, and Lovecraft to Philip K Dick and virtual reality simulations.


Format Häftad Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2003-11-01 ISBN 9780674012448