J.G. Ballard : : landscapes of tomorrow / / 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 l...

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Superior document:Dialogue, Volume 22
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth
  • Introduction / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth
  • Shanghai/Shepperton / Fay Ballard
  • J.G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai / Graham Matthews
  • Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands / Thomas Knowles
  • Zones of Non-time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction / Catherine McKenna
  • Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” / Andrew Warstat
  • Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition / Richard Brown
  • Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition / Guglielmo Poli
  • “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition / Elizabeth Stainforth
  • Hidden Heterotopias in Crash / Christopher Duffy
  • Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterization of High-Rise / William Fingleton
  • Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come / Jeannette Baxter
  • Index / Richard Brown , Christopher Duffy and Elizabeth Stainforth.