J.G. Ballard ：Landscapes of Tomorrow ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Landscapes of Tomorrow

Publication series ：1

Author： Brown Richard;Duffy Christopher;Stainforth Elizabeth

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9789004313866

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004313859

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword：文学评论、文学欣赏

Language： ENG

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Description

Innovative and interdisciplinary essays on the increasingly significant British writer J.G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in his key works, especially The Atrocity Exhibition, one of the most challenging works in contemporary fiction.

Chapter

J.G. Ballard: Landscapes of Tomorrow

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 Exhibition

8: 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

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