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Does the Angle Between Two Walls have a Happy Ending?
J. G. Ballard has both been declared Britain's most important living novelist and dismissed as a marginal figure "beyond psychiatric help". He has earned praise and condemnation, written bestsellers and obscure avant-garde works, gained coveted prizes and prosecutions for obscenity. For forty years, his extraordinary work has moved between science fiction, apocalyptic visions, autobiography and fictions of the contemporary urban landscape. Prophet or pervert? How are we to judge his work?
In this book, Roger Luckhurst reads Ballard's fiction within a series of contexts, skillfully negotiating literary, philosophical and historical terrains in order to illustrate Ballard's central works. Luckhurst suggests that the extremity of the responses to texts such as The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash is a product of Ballard's occupation of an "impossible" space in the mechanisms that dictate literary judgements. At once science fiction and mainstream, popular and avant-garge, Ballard is seen as being in the 'angle between two walls". His fictions are awkward and provoking, it is suggested, in forcing us to confront the frameworks in which we come to judge the literary.
J. G. Ballard has both been declared Britain's most important living novelist and dismissed as a marginal figure "beyond psychiatric help". He has earned praise and condemnation, written bestsellers and obscure avant-garde works, gained coveted prizes and prosecutions for obscenity. For forty years, his extraordinary work has moved between science fiction, apocalyptic visions, autobiography and fictions of the contemporary urban landscape. Prophet or pervert? How are we to judge his work?
In this book, Roger Luckhurst reads Ballard's fiction within a series of contexts, skillfully negotiating literary, philosophical and historical terrains in order to illustrate Ballard's central works. Luckhurst suggests that the extremity of the responses to texts such as The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash is a product of Ballard's occupation of an "impossible" space in the mechanisms that dictate literary judgements. At once science fiction and mainstream, popular and avant-garge, Ballard is seen as being in the 'angle between two walls". His fictions are awkward and provoking, it is suggested, in forcing us to confront the frameworks in which we come to judge the literary.
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Roger Luckhurst teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was awarded the Science Fiction Reseach Association of America's Pioneer Award for outstanding original research in 1995. This is his first book.
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definitional postmodernism, textual signature, generic science fiction, angle between two walls, catastrophe novels, atrocity exhibition, science fiction critics, concrete island, disaster novels, optical unconscious, uncanny effect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vermilion Sands, The Crystal World, The Drought, Hello America, New Worlds, World War, New York, Empire of the Sun, Cape Kennedy, Colin Greenland, Karen Novotny, Las Vegas, Fredric Jameson, Intensive Care, Mount Royal, The Unlimited Dream Company, Vanden Starr, Air Force, Billion Year Spree, Gloria Tremayne, United States, Warren Wagar, Clement Greenberg, Hal Foster, Homi Bhabha New!
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- The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard on 16 pages
- Vermilion Sands by J. G. Ballard on 13 pages
- Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard on 11 pages
- Concrete Island: A Novel by J. G. Ballard on 10 pages
- The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard on 9 pages
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- Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 by Nicholas Daly in Back Matter
- Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth-Century by Ruth Robbins in Front Matter
- Science Fiction (The New Critical Idiom) by Adam Roberts in Back Matter
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