J.G. Ballard : landscapes of tomorrow / edited by Richard Brown, Christopher Duffy, Elizabeth Stainforth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Richard, 1954- editor.

Duffy, Christopher, 1977- editor.

Stainforth, Elizabeth, 1986- editor.

Series:

Dialogue (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ; v. 22.

Dialogue, 1574-9630 ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009--Criticism and interpretation.

Ballard, J. G.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Summary:

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 literature. Contributors include established critics of Ballard alongside newcomers. Different spatial concepts underpin the essays, from the landscapes of Ballard’s youth in Shanghai and his life in suburban London, to nuclear testing spaces and outer space exploration. Figurative locations typical of Ballard’s work are explored, including the beach, the motorway, the high-rise and the shopping mall. Textual spaces are explored through Ballard’s affiliation with modernist literary forms, including surrealist prose writing and collage, and poetic romanticism.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004313866

9004313869

OCLC:

952942802

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004313866 DOI