Decay, Death, and the Return of Light: The I Ching Yin-Yang Cycle in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle
Through a critical investigation of Philip K. Dick's best-selling novel The Man in the High Castle, this essay attempts to unearth deeper levels of characterisation and motifs in the novel by discovering the implicit and nuanced symbolisms of the I Ching (Book of Changes) incorporated within it...
| Subtitles: | "Special Forum on The I Ching and World Literature" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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| In: |
Literature and theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-165 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Philip K. Dick
B The Man in the High Castle B I Ching (Book of Changes) B YinYang Cycl |
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| Summary: | Through a critical investigation of Philip K. Dick's best-selling novel The Man in the High Castle, this essay attempts to unearth deeper levels of characterisation and motifs in the novel by discovering the implicit and nuanced symbolisms of the I Ching (Book of Changes) incorporated within it. The article scrutinises the influences of the I Ching upon Dick's literary creation, particularly how the major themes of decay, death, and the return of light are uniquely depicted in the I Ching cycle of yin and yang, and metaphorically symbolised by several corresponding hexagrams. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frad009 |