The Empires Of J G Ballard
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The Empires Of J G Ballard
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Author : David Ian Paddy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08
The Empires Of J G Ballard written by David Ian Paddy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08 with categories.
An extensive study of Ballard's critical vision of nation and empire, of the political geography of this planet. The author examines how Ballard's self-perceived status as an outsider and exile, the Sheppertonian from Shanghai, generated an outlook that celebrated worldliness and condemned parochialism.
The Empire S Of J G Ballard
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Author : David Ian Paddy
language : en
Publisher: Gylphi Limited
Release Date : 2015-08-25
The Empire S Of J G Ballard written by David Ian Paddy and has been published by Gylphi Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
J. G. Ballard once declared that the most truly alien planet is Earth and in his science fiction he abandoned the traditional imagery of rocket ships traveling to distant galaxies to address the otherworldliness of this world. The Empires of J. G. Ballard is the first extensive study of Ballard's critical vision of nation and empire, of the political geography of this planet. Paddy examines how Ballard s self-perceived status as an outsider and exile, the Sheppertonian from Shanghai, generated an outlook that celebrated worldliness and condemned parochialism. This book brings to light how Ballard wrestled with notions of national identity and speculated upon the social and psychological implications of the post-war transformation of older models of empire into new imperialisms of consumerism and globalization. Presenting analyses of Ballard s full body of work with its tales of reverse colonization, psychological imperialism, the savagery of civilization, estranged Englishmen abroad and at home, and multinational communities built on crime, The Empires of J. G. Ballard offers a fresh perspective on the fiction of J. G. Ballard. The Empires of J.G. Ballard: An Imagined Geography offers a sustained and highly convincing analysis of the imperial and post-imperial histories and networks that shape and energise Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings. To what extent can Ballard be considered an international writer? What happens to our understanding of his post-war science fictions when they are opened up to the language and logics of post-colonialism? And what creative and critical roles do the spectres of empire play in Ballard's visions of modernity? Paddy follows these and other fascinating lines of enquiry in a study that is not only essential reading for Ballard students and scholars, but for anyone interested in the intersections of modern and contemporary literature, history and politics. (Jeanette Baxter, Anglia Ruskin University) Shanghai made my father. Arriving in England after WW2, he was a person of the world who d witnessed extremes of human experience, and remained the outsider observing life from his home in Shepperton. 1930s Shanghai, Paris of the East , was a mix of international sophistication and violence, unfettered capitalism and acute poverty, American cars, martinis and Coca Cola, a place marked by death and war. It had a profound influence on my father and his imagination. Dr Paddy s fascinating book explores my father s fiction within an international context and offers a profound reading of a man who always kept his eyes and mind open to the world. (Fay Ballard)
Empire Of The Sun
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-19
Empire Of The Sun written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-19 with Fiction categories.
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
War Fever
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-07-15
War Fever written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Fiction categories.
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection by J. G. Ballard, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories in War Fever feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.
Miracles Of Life
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Miracles Of Life 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 2008-09-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, ‘Empire of the Sun’, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.
J G Ballard
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Author : D. Harlan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2017-11-10
J G Ballard written by D. Harlan Wilson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.
Garden Of Time
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Garden Of Time written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with categories.
The Kindness Of Women
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-06-21
The Kindness Of Women 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 2012-06-21 with Fiction categories.
‘This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism’ Observer
The Siege Of Krishnapur
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Author : J.G. Farrell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Siege Of Krishnapur written by J.G. Farrell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food and ammunition grow short, the Residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerable. The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life. 'Suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yoke. But Farrell manages just this here: his imaginative insight and technical virtuosity combine to produce a novel of quite outstanding quality' The Times 'The magnificient passages of action in The Siege of Krishnapur, its gallery of characters, its unashamedly detailed and fascinating dissertations on cholera, gunnery, phrenology, the prodigal inventiveness of its no doubt also well-documented scenes should satisfy the most exacting and voracious reader. For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' John Spurling, New Statesman
The Atrocity Exhibition
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Author : J. G. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Press
Release Date : 1972
The Atrocity Exhibition written by J. G. Ballard and has been published by Harvill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Fiction categories.