| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 151 pages). |
| Series |
Contemporary critical perspectives |
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Contemporary critical perspectives series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-147) and index. |
| Contents |
J.G. Ballard and the contemporary / Jeannette Baxter -- The geometry of the space age : J.G. Ballard's short fiction and science fiction of the 1960s / Brian Baker -- Disquieting features : an introductory tour of The atrocity exhibition / Jake Huntley -- The Gothic, the body, and the failed homeopathy argument : reading Crash / Victor Sage -- Death at work : the cinematic imagination of J.G. Ballard / Corin Depper -- Mind is the battlefield : reading Ballard's "Life trilogy" as war literature / Umbert Rossi -- From Shanghai to Shepperton : crises of representation in J.G. Ballard's Londons / Sebastian Groes -- Visions of Europe in Cocaine nights and Super-Cannes / Jeannette Baxter -- Situating the violence of J.G. Ballard's postmillennial fiction : the possibilities of sacrifice, the certainties of trauma / Philip Tew. |
| Summary |
J.G. Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. His award-winning novels are widely studied and read, yet the appeal of Ballard's idiosyncratic, and often controversial, imagination is such that his work also enjoys something of a cult status with the reading public. The hugely successful cinematic adaptations of Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987) and Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) further confirm Ballard's unique place within the literary, cultural and popular imaginations. This guide includes new critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as hi. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009. (OCoLC)fst01727146
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Ballard, James G.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Baxter, Jeannette.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: J.G. Ballard. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008 082649725X (DLC) 2009284116 (OCoLC)245564034 |
| ISBN |
9781441163622 (electronic bk.) |
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144116362X (electronic bk.) |
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