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J.G. Ballard : landscapes of tomorrow /

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 li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brown, Richard, 1954- (Editor ), Duffy, Christopher, 1977- (Editor ), Stainforth, Elizabeth, 1986- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]
Colección:Dialogue (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • J.G. Ballard: Landscapes of Tomorrow; Copyright; Contents; Standard Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Shanghai/Shepperton; 1: J.G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai; 2: Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands; 3: Zones of Non-time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard's Fiction; 4: Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in "The Dead Astronaut"; 5: Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition; 6: Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition.
  • 7: "The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible": Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition8: Hidden Heterotopias in Crash; 9: Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterization of High-Rise; 10: Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come; Index.