J. G. Ballard: visions and revisions

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. JEANNETTE BAXTER is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Anglia RuskinUniversity, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of 'J. G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship' (Ashgate 2009); editor of 'J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives' (Continuum 2008); co-editor of 'W.G. Sebald: Critical Essays' (Manchester 2012), and author of numerous essays in the areas of literary modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary British fiction. .. ROWLAND WYMER is a Professor of English at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. His publications include 'Suicide and Despair in the Jacobean Drama' (1986), 'Webster and Ford' (1995), and 'Derek Jarman' (2005), as well as a number of co-edited collections of essays, including 'Neo-Historicism' (2000) and'The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences' (2006). He is currently working on a book on science fiction and religion and editing 'TheWitch of Edmonton' for the Oxford edition of 'The Complete Works of John Ford'. JEANNETTE BAXTER is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of J. G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship (Ashgate 2009); editor of J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Continuum 2008); co-editor of W.G. Sebald: Critical Essays (Manchester 2012), and author of numerous essays in the areas of literary modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary British fiction. ROWLAND WYMER is a Professor of English at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. Hispublications include Suicide and Despair in the Jacobean Drama (1986), Webster and Ford (1995), and Derek Jarman (2005), as well as a number of co-edited collections of essays, including Neo-Historicism (2000) and The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences (2006). He is currently working ona book on science fiction and religion and editing The Witch of Edmonton for the Oxford edition of The Complete Works of John Ford. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: 'J.Baxter' & 'R.Wymer - 'PART I: 'FICTIONS OF EVERY KIND': FORM AND NARRATIVE - Ballard's Story of O: 'The Voices of Time' and the Quest for (Non)Identity; 'R.Wymer - 'Ballard/Atrocity/Conner/Exhibition/Assemblage; 'R.Luckhurst' - Uncanny Forms: Reading Ballard's 'Non-Fiction'; 'J.Baxter ' - PART II: ' THE ANGLE BETWEENTWO WALLS': SEX, GEOMETRY AND THE BODY - Pornographic Geometries: The Spectacle as Pathology and as Therapy in The Atrocity Exhibition;' J.H.Bon Hua ' - Disaffection and Abjection in J. G. Ballard's 'The Atrocity Exhibition' and 'Crash; E.Whiting' - Chapter Six: Reading Posture and Gesture in Ballard's Novels;'D.O'Hara' - PART III: 'BABYLON REVISITED': BALLARD'S LONDONS - The Texture of Modernity in J. G. Ballard's 'Crash, Concrete Island and High-Rise; S.Groes'- J. G. Ballard and William Blake: Historicizing the Reprobate Imagination; 'A.Cormack' - Late Ballard; 'D.James' - PART IV: 'THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL': PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOPATHOLOGY - Empires of the Mind: Autobiography and Anti-imperialism in the Work of J.G. Ballard; 'I.Paddy ' - 'Going mad is their only way of staying sane': The Civilized Violence of J. G. Ballard; 'J.Carter Wood' -The Madness of Crowds: Ballard's Experimental Communities; 'J.Huntley' - 'Uncentred Lives': Micronationalism in the Work of J. G. Ballard;' S.Sellars' - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27812-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés