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An innovative volume of interdisciplinary essays on the significant British writer J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in several key novels with a central focus on The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), one of the most challenging texts in contemporary literature. Contributors include established critics of Ballard alongside newcomers. Different spatial concepts underpin the essays, from the landscapes of Ballard’s youth in Shanghai and his life in suburban London, to nuclear testing spaces and outer space exploration. Figurative locations typical of Ballard’s work are explored, including the beach, the motorway, the high-rise and the shopping mall. Textual spaces are explored through Ballard’s affiliation with modernist literary forms, including surrealist prose writing and collage, and poetic romanticism.
Price: $129.00
Pages: 160
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Dialogue
Publication Date:
19 August 2016
ISBN: 9789004313859
Format: Hardcover
Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds and the author of much academic work on James Joyce including A Companion to James Joyce (Blackwell, 2008) and on contemporary writers ranging from Ian McEwan to Bob Dylan. His essay “Reading J.G. Ballard after the Millennium: the Scars of Crash, Cocaine Nights and Millennium People” appeared in the Millennial Fictions special issue of Critical Engagements (Autumn/Winter 2008).
Christopher Duffy is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds working on a thesis titled “Heterotopic Space in Selected Works of J. G. Ballard”. He has taught English Literature at the University of Leeds.
Elizabeth Stainforth is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds. Her research explores memory’s significance for cultural heritage in the wake of digital technologies. She has worked as a researcher and University teacher and librarian and is one of the editors of the journal parallax.
Christopher Duffy is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds working on a thesis titled “Heterotopic Space in Selected Works of J. G. Ballard”. He has taught English Literature at the University of Leeds.
Elizabeth Stainforth is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds. Her research explores memory’s significance for cultural heritage in the wake of digital technologies. She has worked as a researcher and University teacher and librarian and is one of the editors of the journal parallax.