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The only truly alien planet is earth: J. G. Ballard, dalla fantascienza al mainstream tra romanticismo e surrealismo

Abstract

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As an author J. G. Ballard used to deal with different genres and topics, producing several short stories and a number of novels. Yet he has always been true to himself. He started as a science fiction writer, which in a sense he was until the end. With some occasional romantic references, over the years Ballard’s fiction ranged from a personal surrealistic mood to novelized autobiography. He also had a keen interest in psychopathology and society, while being somehow haunted by his experience as a civilian prisoner of war in his early teenage years. This study shows how, like a chameleon, he often appeared under different guises, but always stayed undisputedly ‘Ballardian’.

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Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year dc:date
2012

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • SANNA, IGNAZIO
Contributors dc:contributor
  • BAXTER, JEANNETTE
  • PALA, MAURO

Subjects

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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • license:Non specificato
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ita

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http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266358
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oai:iris.unica.it:11584/266358

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SANNA, IGNAZIO. The only truly alien planet is earth: J. G. Ballard, dalla fantascienza al mainstream tra romanticismo e surrealismo. Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266358