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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: J. Baxter & R. Wymer -- PART I: 'FICTIONS OF EVERY KIND': FORM AND NARRATIVE -- Ballard's Story of O: 'The Voices of Time' and the Quest for (Non)Identity; R. Wymer -- Ballard/Atrocity/Conner/Exhibition/Assemblage; R. Luckhurst -- Uncanny Forms: Reading Ballard's 'Non-Fiction'; J. Baxter -- PART II: ' THE ANGLE BETWEEN TWO WALLS': SEX, GEOMETRY AND THE BODY -- Pornographic Geometries: The Spectacle as Pathology and as Therapy in The Atrocity Exhibition; J.H. Bon Hua -- Disaffection and Abjection in J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash; E. Whiting -- Chapter Six: Reading Posture and Gesture in Ballard's Novels; D.O'Hara -- PART III: 'BABYLON REVISITED': BALLARD'S LONDONS -- The Texture of Modernity in J.G. Ballard's Crash, Concrete Island and High-Rise; S. Groes -- J.G. Ballard and William Blake: Historicizing the Reprobate Imagination; A. Cormack -- Late Ballard; D. James -- PART IV: 'THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL': PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOPATHOLOGY -- Empires of the Mind: Autobiography and Anti-imperialism in the Work of J.G. Ballard; I. Paddy -- 'Going mad is their only way of staying sane': The Civilized Violence of J.G. Ballard; J. Carter Wood -- The Madness of Crowds: Ballard's Experimental Communities; J. Huntley -- 'Uncentred Lives': Micronationalism in the Work of J.G. Ballard; S. Sellars -- Index |
| Summary |
J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions is a response to the formal and contextual diversity of one of the most significant writers of the post-war period. Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, it also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology. The volume addresses the full range of Ballard's writing, including his early science fiction stories, his experiments with 'condensed novels', his 'urban disaster' trilogy (including Crash), his autobiographical fictions, his late critiques of globalized capitalism, and his extensive non-fictional output of essays and reviews |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 fast |
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Ballard, J. G. 1930-2009 gnd |
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Literature.
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Science fiction, English
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
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Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 -- English -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Baxter, Jeannette
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Wymer, Rowland
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| ISBN |
9780230346482 |
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0230346480 |
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