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J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Jeannette Baxter

    1. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Rowland Wymer

    1. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jeannette Baxter, Rowland Wymer
      Pages 1-15

  3. ‘Fictions of Every Kind’: Form and Narrative

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Ballard’s Story of O: ‘The Voices of Time’ and the Quest for (Non)Identity

      • Rowland Wymer
      Pages 19-34

    3. Ballard/Atrocity/Conner/Exhibition/ Assemblage

      • Roger Luckhurst
      Pages 35-49

    4. Uncanny Forms: Reading Ballard’s Non-Fiction’

      • Jeannette Baxter
      Pages 50-68

  4. ‘The Angle Between Two Walls’: Sex, Geometry and the Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Pornographic Geometries: The Spectacle as Pathology and as Therapy in The Atrocity Exhibition

      • Jen Hui Bon Hoa
      Pages 71-87

    3. Disaffection and Abjection in J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash

      • Emma Whiting
      Pages 88-104

    4. Reading Posture and Gesture in Ballard’s Novels

      • Dan O’Hara
      Pages 105-120

  5. ‘Babylon Revisited’: Ballard’s Londons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Texture of Modernity in J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Concrete Island and High-Rise

      • Sebastian Groes
      Pages 123-141

    3. J. G. Ballard and William Blake: Historicizing the Reprobate Imagination

      • Alistair Cormack
      Pages 142-159

    4. Late Ballard

      • David James
      Pages 160-176

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

    Jeannette Baxter, Rowland Wymer

About the editors

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.

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