| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Series |
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; v. 54 |
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Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: Catastrophic Strategies ; 2 Celebration of Wounds: Excess, the Body, and Symbolic Exchange in Crash ; 2.1 Dystopian Vistas ; 2.2 Roads of Excess ; 2.3 Anarchic Bodies, or, Breughel and Bosch on the Freeway |
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2.4 Symbolic Violence 3 Becoming-Grass: De- and Reterritorialization in Concrete Island ; 3.1 Deterritorialization ; 3.2 Reterritorialization ; 4 Escaping the Subject: The Ballardian Theme of Abdication ; 4.1 Siding with the Object ; 4.2 Inverted Crusoes ; 4.3 Embrace the Fugues! |
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5 The Psychopath as Saint: Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes and the Politics of Transgression after the End of History 5.1 The Violence of the Global and the Boredom of Paradise ; 5.2 The Spectral Reign of Global Capital |
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6 In Pursuit of the 21st Century: The Revolutionary Imagination and the Spectacle of Terrorism in Millennium People 6.1 Escaping the Soft-Regime Prison ; 6.2 Subversion, No End of Subversion -- Only Not for Us ; 6.3 The Will to Spectacle ; 7 Conclusion: New Weapons ; Works Cited ; Index |
| Summary |
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory |
| Analysis |
(Produktform)Electronic book text |
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(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft |
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(BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004120 |
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J.G. Ballard; Late Capitalism; Power; Resistance |
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(VLB-WN)9564 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Political and social views
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110490725 |
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3110490722 |
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3110488302 |
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9783110488302 |
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9783110635232 |
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3110635232 |
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