J.G. Ballard : : landscapes of tomorrow / / edited by Richard Brown, Christopher Duffy, Elizabeth Stainforth.

• Superior document: Dialogue, Volume 22
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Richard, 1954-; Duffy, Christopher, 1977-; Stainforth, Elizabeth, 1986-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ; v. 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Shanghai/Shepperton /; J.G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai /; Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands /; Zones of Non-time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction /; Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” /; Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition /; Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition /; “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition /; Hidden Heterotopias in Crash /; Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterization of High-Rise /; Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004313869
• ISSN: 1574-9630
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Richard Brown, Christopher Duffy, Elizabeth Stainforth.

An innovative volume of interdisciplinary essays on the significant British writer J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in several key novels with a central focus on The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), one of the most challenging texts in contemporary literature. Contributors include established critics of Ballard alongside newcomers. Different spatial concepts underpin the essays, from the landscapes of Ballard’s youth in Shanghai and his life in suburban London, to nuclear testing spaces and outer space exploration. Figurative locations typical of Ballard’s work are explored, including the beach, the motorway, the high-rise and the shopping mall. Textual spaces are explored through Ballard’s affiliation with modernist literary forms, including surrealist prose writing and collage, and poetic romanticism.