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.
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CONTRIBUTORS: J. Baxter, R. Wymer
EAN: 9780230278127
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 534 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-11-08
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GENRE: FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
English, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
'This volume makes a brilliant contribution to our understanding of the sheer range, originality and uniqueness of Ballard's talents. In doing so, it also opens up a fascinating range of hitherto underexplored intellectual and cultural contexts of the period 1960 to the present. This is a collection of the highest distinction.' - Professor Patricia Waugh, Department of English Studies, University of Durham, UK
ALISTAIR CORMACK Head of English, Gresham's, Norfolk, UK SEBASTIAN GROES Lecturer in English Literature, Roehampton University, UK JEN HUI BON HOA Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA JACOB HUNTLEY Tutor in Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK DAVID JAMES Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Nottingham, UK ROGER LUCKHURST Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DAN O'HARA Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Cologne, Germany DAVID PADDY Professor of English Language and Literature, Whittier College, USA SIMON SELLARS Researcher in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia EMMA WHITING Independent Scholar, UK JOHN CARTER WOOD Researcher at the Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany.
