J. G. Ballard

Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Baxter, Jeannette

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on J. G. Ballard by leading international academics, which includes a short biography, timeline and comprehensive guided further reading.

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J G Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. This guide includes critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Critical Perspectives
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780826497253
• ISBN-10: 082649725X
• Artikelnr.: 24323870

Autorenporträt

Jeannette Baxter isSenior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, specializing in modern and contemporary fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chronology or a Version of J. G. Ballard's Life
Foreword by Toby Litt
Introduction: J. G. Ballard and the Contemporary, Jeannette Baxter (Anglia
Ruskin University, Cambridge)
1. The Geometry of the Space Age: J. G. Ballard's short fiction and science
fiction of the 1960s, Brian Baker (Lancaster University)
2. Disquieting Features: An Introductory Tour to The Atrocity Exhibition,
Jake Huntley (University of East Anglia)
3. The Gothic, the Body, and the Failed Homeopathy Argument: Reading Crash,
Victor Sage (University of East Anglia)
4. Death at Work: The Cinematic Imagination of J. G. Ballard, Corin Depper
(Kingston University)
5. Mind is the Battlefield: Reading Ballard's 'Life Trilogy' as War
Literature, Umberto Rossi (Rome)
6. From Shanghai to Shepperton: Crises of Representation in J. G. Ballard's
Londons, Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University)
7. Visions of Europe in Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes, Jeannette Baxter
(Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
8. The Possibilities of Sacrifice, the Certainties of Trauma: J. G.
Ballard's Postmillenial Fiction, Philip Tew (Brunel University)
Afterword by Toby Litt
Interview with J.G. Ballard by Jeannette Baxter
Further Reading
Index