J.G. Ballard /
"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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Modern masters of science fiction.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1488531 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 J.G. Ballard, a.k.a. Shanghai Jim
- Chapter 2 This Way to Inner Space: Short Fiction and Nonfiction
- Chapter 3 Disaster Areas: The Natural Disaster Quartet
- Chapter 4 Psychopathologies of Everyday Life: The Atrocity Exhibition and the Cultural Disaster Trilogy
- Chapter 5 Empires of the Self: Autobiographical Novels
- Chapter 6 The Road to Culture: Later Novels
- Conclusion
- A J.G. Ballard Bibliography
- Notes
- Bibliography of Secondary Sources
- Index.