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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2016]
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| Series: | Dialogue (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ;
v. 22. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.