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J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination

Jeannette Baxter
J G Ballard s Surrealist Imagination Book PDF

Author : Jeannette Baxter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351925815

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J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination by Jeannette Baxter Pdf

Making the case that J. G. Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings must be read within the framework of Surrealism, Jeannette Baxter argues for a radical revisioning of Ballard that takes account of the political and ethical dimensions of his work. Ballard's appropriation of diverse Surrealist aesthetic forms and political writings, Baxter suggests, are mobilised to contest official narratives of postwar history and culture and offer a series of counter-historical and counter-cultural critiques. Thus Ballard's work must be understood as an exercise in Surrealist historiography that is politically and ethically engaged. Placing Ballard's illustrated texts within this critical framework permits Baxter to explore the effects of photographs, drawings, and other visual symbols on the reading experience and the production of meaning. Ballard's textual spectacles raise a variety of questions about the shifting role of the reader and the function of the written text within a predominantly visual culture, while acknowledging the visual contexts of Ballard's Surrealist writings allows a very different historical picture of the author and his work to emerge.

The Crystal World

J. G. Ballard
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Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007374892

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The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard Pdf

From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.

J. G. Ballard

Jeannette Baxter
J G Ballard Book PDF

Author : Jeannette Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441163622

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J. G. Ballard by Jeannette Baxter Pdf

J.G. Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. His award-winning novels are widely studied and read, yet the appeal of Ballard's idiosyncratic, and often controversial, imagination is such that his work also enjoys something of a cult status with the reading public. The hugely successful cinematic adaptations of Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987) and Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) further confirm Ballard's unique place within the literary, cultural and popular imaginations. This guide includes new critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation. Whilst offering fresh readings of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including history, sexuality, violence, consumer capitalism, and urban space,the contributors also explore Ballard's contribution to major contemporary debates including those surrounding post 9/11 politics, terrorism, neo-imperialism, science, morality and ethics.

The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel

J. G. Ballard
The Unlimited Dream Company A Novel Book PDF

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Liveright
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780871404190

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The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel by J. G. Ballard Pdf

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." —New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed. Vultures invade rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations toward an apocalyptic climax. In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that has established him as one of the twentieth century’s most visionary writers.

The Dead City

Paul Dobraszczyk
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Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781786732408

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The Dead City by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.

The Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard

Samuel Francis
The Psychological Fictions of J G Ballard Book PDF

Author : Samuel Francis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472513038

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The Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard by Samuel Francis Pdf

J. G. Ballard self-professedly 'devoured' the work of Freud as a teenager, and entertained early thoughts of becoming a psychiatrist; he opened his novel-writing career with a manifesto declaring his wish to write a science fiction exploring not outer but 'inner space', and declaring the need for contemporary fiction to be viewed 'as a branch of neurology'. He also apparently welcomed a reader's report on Crash (1973) condemning him as 'beyond psychiatric help' as confirming his achievement of 'total artistic success'. Samuel Francis investigates Ballard's engagement with psychology and the psychological in his fiction, tracing the influence of key figures including Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung and R.D. Laing and placing his work in the context of the wider fields of psychology and psychiatry. While the psychological preoccupations of his writing are very clear - including his use of concepts such as the unconscious, psychopathology, 'deviance', obsession, abnormal psychology and schizophrenia - this is the first book to offer a detailed analysis of this key conceptual and historical context for his fiction.

J.G. Ballard

Anonim
J G Ballard Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004313866

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J.G. Ballard by Anonim Pdf

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.

J. G. Ballard

D. Harlan Wilson
J G Ballard Book PDF

Author : D. Harlan Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252050039

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J. G. Ballard by D. Harlan Wilson Pdf

Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.

J.G. Ballard

Andrzej Gasiorek
J G Ballard Book PDF

Author : Andrzej Gasiorek
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719070538

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J.G. Ballard by Andrzej Gasiorek Pdf

A comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years. Traces the development of his career, and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing.

J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions

J. Baxter,R. Wymer
J G Ballard Visions and Revisions Book PDF

Author : J. Baxter,R. Wymer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230346482

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J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions by J. Baxter,R. Wymer Pdf

Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.

Vermilion Sands

J G Ballard
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Author : J G Ballard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446420041

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Vermilion Sands by J G Ballard Pdf

A FUTURISTIC COVER - COMES WITH 3D GLASSES! Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. Discover prima donna plants programmed to sing operatic arias, dial-a-poem computers and psychosensitive houses capable of murder. These quintessentially Ballardian short stories of dystopian modernity are Ballard’s ‘guess at what the future will actually be like’.

The Atrocity Exhibition

J. G. Ballard
The Atrocity Exhibition Book PDF

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007322190

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The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard Pdf

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.

J.G. Ballard’s Politics

Florian Cord
J G Ballard s Politics Book PDF

Author : Florian Cord
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110488302

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J.G. Ballard’s Politics by Florian Cord Pdf

This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard’s oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the postmodern, examining it specifically as an expression of late capitalism. The book shows that at the heart of this meditation lies the question of resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts and ideas taken from the field of critical theory, it argues that in the face of a world marked by an unprecedented expansion of capital, in which modernity’s grand narratives have been invalidated and in which received forms of political struggle have lost their effectiveness, Ballard’s fiction commits itself to a deliberately irrational and extreme, pataphysical thought in order to develop a new discourse of resistance. Against past readings that have construed Ballard’s writing as non-political, decadent, or quietist, the study thus reveals Ballard as a thoroughly political author, committed to a subversive politics. In this way, the book also constitutes a timely intervention in the ongoing discussion concerning the nature and state of the political.

The Empire's of J. G. Ballard

David Ian Paddy
The Empire s of J G Ballard Book PDF

Author : David Ian Paddy
Publisher : Gylphi Limited
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780240206

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The Empire's of J. G. Ballard by David Ian Paddy Pdf

J. G. Ballard once declared that the most truly alien planet is Earth and in his science fiction he abandoned the traditional imagery of rocket ships traveling to distant galaxies to address the otherworldliness of this world. The Empires of J. G. Ballard is the first extensive study of Ballard's critical vision of nation and empire, of the political geography of this planet. Paddy examines how Ballard s self-perceived status as an outsider and exile, the Sheppertonian from Shanghai, generated an outlook that celebrated worldliness and condemned parochialism. This book brings to light how Ballard wrestled with notions of national identity and speculated upon the social and psychological implications of the post-war transformation of older models of empire into new imperialisms of consumerism and globalization. Presenting analyses of Ballard s full body of work with its tales of reverse colonization, psychological imperialism, the savagery of civilization, estranged Englishmen abroad and at home, and multinational communities built on crime, The Empires of J. G. Ballard offers a fresh perspective on the fiction of J. G. Ballard. The Empires of J.G. Ballard: An Imagined Geography offers a sustained and highly convincing analysis of the imperial and post-imperial histories and networks that shape and energise Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings. To what extent can Ballard be considered an international writer? What happens to our understanding of his post-war science fictions when they are opened up to the language and logics of post-colonialism? And what creative and critical roles do the spectres of empire play in Ballard's visions of modernity? Paddy follows these and other fascinating lines of enquiry in a study that is not only essential reading for Ballard students and scholars, but for anyone interested in the intersections of modern and contemporary literature, history and politics. (Jeanette Baxter, Anglia Ruskin University) Shanghai made my father. Arriving in England after WW2, he was a person of the world who d witnessed extremes of human experience, and remained the outsider observing life from his home in Shepperton. 1930s Shanghai, Paris of the East , was a mix of international sophistication and violence, unfettered capitalism and acute poverty, American cars, martinis and Coca Cola, a place marked by death and war. It had a profound influence on my father and his imagination. Dr Paddy s fascinating book explores my father s fiction within an international context and offers a profound reading of a man who always kept his eyes and mind open to the world. (Fay Ballard)

Ian McEwan

Sebastian Groes
Ian McEwan Book PDF

Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826497222

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Ian McEwan by Sebastian Groes Pdf

An up-to-date reader of critical essays on Ian McEwan by leading international academics, covering McEwan's most recent novels including Saturday, On Chesil Beach and an analysis of the film adaptation of Enduring Love.