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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"J.G. Ballard"”.
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Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard
<p>While the fiction of J.G. Ballard has been primarily explored through postmodern criticism, his narratives and settings predict major issues concerning the contemporary discourse of posthumanism. His texts explore the escalating economic, social, and ecological crises converging within the …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… four major phases of his literary career, J.G. Ballard’s engagement with, and synthesis of, various twentieth century artistic and intellectual movements assisted Ballard in deciphering the twentieth century, while also enabling him to prophetically speculate on the future of the human …
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… Five explore the apocalyptic fiction of J. G. Ballard; topics covered include Ballard's concept of inner space, his debt to Surrealism, and the coded landscapes of his more experimental texts; in particular the "condensed novels" which comprise The Atrocity Exhibition (1970). A concluding …
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Encountering Time: Selected Short Stories of J.G. Ballard and Paul Ricoeur's <em>Time and Narrative</em>
… <ul> <li>Introduction: Treatment of Time in J.G. Ballard’s Selected Short Stories</li> <li>Chapter I: The Illusion of Now</li> <li>Chapter II: Games With Time</li> <li>Chapter III: Capturing Time, Frozen Temporality, and The End of Time</li> <li>Chapter IV: Ricoeur’s “Third Time” or The Fictive …
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The old New Wave : a study of the 'New Wave' in British science fiction during the 1960s and early 1970s, with special reference to the works of Brian W. Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Harry Harrison and Michael Moorcock
This thesis examines the 'New Wave' in British science fiction in the 1960s and early 1970s. The use of the terms 'science fiction' and 'New Wave' in the thesis are defined through a use of elements of the ideological theories of Louis Althusser. The New Wave is seen as a change in the ideological …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… authors—Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Maggie Gee—I uncover the process by which British writers working after Thatcher came to believe that one of the consequences of this experiment with freedom has been a disastrous abandonment of politics in …
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Ambivalent structures
… Strangelove (1964), while writers such as J.G. Ballard pondered their influence on urban infrastructure and the post-war utopian aspirations of city planners in works such as Concrete Island (1974) and Crash (1973). Here, manifestations of the bunker and its effect on the psychology of Ballard’s …
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British science fiction and the Cold War, 1945-1969
… with form in the fiction of J.G. Ballard and Brian Aldiss as well as the stories and articles incorporated within New Worlds magazine during Michael Moorcock’s period as editor. Following on from this is a consideration of the emergence of SF film and television in Britain, marking …