Baxter, Jeannette
J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions
1. Introduction
Jeannette Baxter, Rowland Wymer
Part I. ‘Fictions of Every Kind’: Form and Narrative
2. Ballard’s Story of O: ‘The Voices of Time’ and the Quest for (Non)Identity
Rowland Wymer
3. Ballard/
Roger Luckhurst
4. Uncanny Forms: Reading Ballard’s Non-Fiction’
Jeannette Baxter
Part II. ‘The Angle Between Two Walls’: Sex, Geometry and the Body
5. Pornographic Geometries: The Spectacle as Pathology and as Therapy in
Jen Hui Bon Hoa
6. Disaffection and Abjection in J. G. Ballard’s
Emma Whiting
7. Reading Posture and Gesture in Ballard’s Novels
Dan O’Hara
Part III. ‘Babylon Revisited’: Ballard’s Londons
8. The Texture of Modernity in J. G. Ballard’s
Sebastian Groes
9. J. G. Ballard and William Blake: Historicizing the Reprobate Imagination
Alistair Cormack
10. Late Ballard
David James
Part IV. ‘The Personal is Political’: Psychology and Sociopathology
11. Empires of the Mind: Autobiography and Anti-imperialism in the Work of J. G. Ballard
David Ian Paddy
12. ‘Going mad is their only way of staying sane’: Norbert Elias and the Civilized Violence of J. G. Ballard
J. Carter Wood
13. The Madness of Crowds: Ballard’s Experimental Communities
Jake Huntley
14. ‘Zones of Transition’: Micronationalism in the Work of J. G. Ballard
Simon Sellars
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, European Literature
- Editor
- Baxter, Jeannette
- Wymer, Rowland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 265 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230346482
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-32595-5