A User S Guide To The Millennium
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A User S Guide To The Millennium
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-03-27
A User S Guide To The Millennium written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Fiction categories.
A collection of essays and reviews by renowned author J.G. Ballard, spanning over thirty years and covering film, science, art, literature and current affairs.
J G Ballard S Politics
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Author : Florian Cord
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-01-23
J G Ballard S Politics written by Florian Cord and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard’s oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the postmodern, examining it specifically as an expression of late capitalism. The book shows that at the heart of this meditation lies the question of resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts and ideas taken from the field of critical theory, it argues that in the face of a world marked by an unprecedented expansion of capital, in which modernity’s grand narratives have been invalidated and in which received forms of political struggle have lost their effectiveness, Ballard’s fiction commits itself to a deliberately irrational and extreme, pataphysical thought in order to develop a new discourse of resistance. Against past readings that have construed Ballard’s writing as non-political, decadent, or quietist, the study thus reveals Ballard as a thoroughly political author, committed to a subversive politics. In this way, the book also constitutes a timely intervention in the ongoing discussion concerning the nature and state of the political.
J G Ballard
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Author : Jeannette Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-02-12
J G Ballard written by Jeannette Baxter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
J.G. Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. His award-winning novels are widely studied and read, yet the appeal of Ballard's idiosyncratic, and often controversial, imagination is such that his work also enjoys something of a cult status with the reading public. The hugely successful cinematic adaptations of Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987) and Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) further confirm Ballard's unique place within the literary, cultural and popular imaginations. This guide includes new critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation. Whilst offering fresh readings of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including history, sexuality, violence, consumer capitalism, and urban space,the contributors also explore Ballard's contribution to major contemporary debates including those surrounding post 9/11 politics, terrorism, neo-imperialism, science, morality and ethics.
A User S Guide To The Millennium
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1996
A User S Guide To The Millennium written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
A collection of novelist's non-fiction writings spanning more than thirty years addresses topics including the arts, science, literature, popular culture, and his own life
The Sex Is Out Of This World
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Author : Sherry Ginn
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-11-08
The Sex Is Out Of This World written by Sherry Ginn and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Science fiction" can be translated into "real unreality." More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science fiction constructs its possibilities from what is real, from what is, indeed, possible, or conceivably so. This collection, then, looks to understand and explore the "unreal reality," to note ways in which our culture's continually changing and evolving mores of sex and sexuality are reflected in, dissected by, and deconstructed through the genre of science fiction. This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction (although some work has gone before, none of it is recent). The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors--regardless of format (print, film, television, etc.)--envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors.
The Science Fiction Handbook
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Author : Nick Hubble
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-11-28
The Science Fiction Handbook written by Nick Hubble and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.
J G Ballard Visions And Revisions
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Author : J. Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-10
J G Ballard Visions And Revisions written by J. Baxter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Fiction categories.
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.
Surrealism Science Fiction And Comics
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Author : Gavin Parkinson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Surrealism Science Fiction And Comics written by Gavin Parkinson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The first book to look at the relationship either between Surrealism and Science Fiction or between Surrealism and comics.
Mythic Thinking In Twentieth Century Britain
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Author : M. Sterenberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Mythic Thinking In Twentieth Century Britain written by M. Sterenberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
Selected Nonfiction 1962 2007
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Selected Nonfiction 1962 2007 written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Literary Collections categories.
J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels—from the notorious Crash (1973) to the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984)—Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms. This volume collects the most significant short nonfiction of Ballard's fifty-year career, extending the range of the only previous collection of his nonfiction, A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996), which selected essays and reviews published between 1962 and 1995. A decade on from Ballard's death in 2009, a new generation of readers needs a new collection. In the period following A User's Guide, Ballard's writing addressed 9/11, British politics from New Labour onward, and what he termed “the rise of soft fascism”—a diagnosis that maintains its relevance amid a shift toward right populism in European and US politics. Beautifully edited by Ballard scholar and novelist Mark Blacklock, this volume includes Ballard's editorials and manifestos; commentaries on his own work; commentaries on the work of others; reviews; and more. Above all, it makes the case for the currency of Ballard's work at a contemporary juncture at which so many of his diagnoses concerning the media and politics have become apparent.