Intersections : essays on Richard Powers / edited by Stephen J. Burn and Peter Dempsey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burn, Stephen.

Dempsey, Peter, 1956-

Series:

Dalkey Archive scholarly series

Dalkey archive scholarly series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Powers, Richard, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.

Powers, Richard.

Powers, Richard, 1957-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 336 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.

Contents:

August Sander and Three farmers on their way to a dance / Anca Cristofovici

Stepping into history : Prisoner's dilemma / Sven Birkerts

Just behind the billboard : the instability of Prisoner's dilemma / Scott Hermanson

Thirty two short paragraphs about The gold bug variations / Barry Lewis

The rhetoric of the genetic post card : writing and reading in The gold bug variations / Patti White

Richard Powers's ghosts / Stephen J. Burn

Passionate pathography : narrative as pharmakon in Operation wandering soul / David Cowart

The sufficiency of code : Galatea 2.2 and the necessity of embodiment / Jon Adams

Astride the two cultures : a letter to Richard Powers, updated / Daniel C. Dennett

The business of Gain / Paul Maliszewski

Powers world : refuge and reentry in Plowing the dark / Trey Strecker

Little knots, tied in the clothing of time : The time of our singing as a dual-time narrative / Joseph Dewey

To find the soul, it is necessary to lose it : neuroscience, disability, and the epigraph to The echo maker / Jenell Johnson

Afterthoughts on The echo maker / Joseph Tabbi

The story of the self : The echo maker and neurological realism / Charles B. Harris

Powers of the facsimile : a Turing test on science and literature / Bruno Latour

Narrating technology / Carter Scholz

Making the rounds / Richard Powers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index.

ISBN:

9781564785084

1564785084

OCLC:

182856973