J.G. Ballard's surrealist imagination
Subtitle: spectacular authorship
By: by Dr. Jeannette Baxter.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780754662679
Subjects: Ballard, J. G., -- 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism; Surrealism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mapping a surrealist historiography: recontextualising the drowned world and the crystal world; title: Reading The atrocity exhibition: a history of forms; title: Radical surrealism: performance, photography and history in crash; title: Convulsive autobiography: negotiating history, memory and fiction in Empire of the sun and The kindness of women; title: The surrealist fait divers: uncovering violent histories in Running wild, Cocaine nights, Super-cannes and Millennium people.