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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: J.Baxter & R.Wymer PART I: 'FICTIONS OF EVERY KIND': FORM AND NARRATIVE Ballard's Story of O: 'The Voices of Time' and the Quest for (Non)Identity; R.Wymer Ballard/Atrocity/Conner/Exhibition/Assemblage; R.Luckhurst Uncanny... Read Full Overview