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There are 13 critical essays on William Gibson.
Critical Essays on William Gibson
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 Critical Essay by Kathryne V. Lindberg
14,509 words, approx. 48 pages
 In the following essay, Lindberg discusses Gibson as a postmodern author and examines the roles of authority, time, and memory in his writing.
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Critical Essay by Tony Fabijancic
10,548 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Fabijancic discusses the motifs of space and vision in Gibson's fiction within the context of modern multinational capitalist society.
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Critical Essay by M. Keith Booker
9,398 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Booker outlines the defining characteristics of Gibson's fiction, emphasizing his attitude toward and treatment of technology.
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Critical Essay by Tatiana Rapatzikou
7,473 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Rapatzikou examines William Gibson's representation of human identity in his trilogy of science fiction novels—Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive–and how Gibson's themes are both linked to and informed by the portrayal of the “inhuman” in comic books, particularly in the computer-generated graphic novels, Iron Man: Crash, by Mike Saenz and Batman: Digital Justice, by Pepe Moreno.
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Critical Essay by Claire Sponsler
7,032 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Sponsler considers the interface of postmodernism and narrative in Gibson's cyberpunk fiction.
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Critical Essay by Darko Suvin
6,747 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Suvin discusses the category of cyberpunk, considering Gibson's short fiction as representative of the subgenre. This is a revamped version by Suvin in 1991 of the above cited essay.
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Critical Essay by Ronald Schmitt
6,155 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Schmitt finds similarities between Gibson's cyberpunk fiction and the iconography of punk rock music.
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Critical Essay by Paul Alkon
5,194 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Alkon delineates the elements of myth, allegory, and fairy tale in Gibson's cyberpunk trilogy.
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Critical Essay by Lance Olsen
5,165 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Olsen discusses spirituality, technology, and postmodernism in Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive, which are also collectively known as Gibson's matrix trilogy.
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Critical Essay by N. Katherine Hayles
4,602 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Hayles argues that Gibson's fiction blurs the boundaries between cyberspace and the real world.
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Critical Essay by Miriyam Glazer
4,170 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Glazer traces recent developments in science fiction and places Gibson within the context of the science fiction genre.
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Critical Essay by Randy Schroeder
4,084 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Schroeder discusses the ideas of postmodernism and literary romanticism in Gibson's fiction.
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Critical Essay by Peter Schwenger
2,555 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Schwenger identifies the central themes and motifs of Agrippa as absence, disappearance, mechanism, and apocalypse.
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