10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALLARDIAN»
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Ballardian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Ballardian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on ...
No one had ever written anything like them before, and, in association with "The
Voices of Time" and "The Terminal Beach", they were the works that secured the
coinage of the adjective "Ballardian" and established its exchange-rate. There is
...
2
New Worlds: Before the New Wave, 1960-1964: The Carnell Era, ...
For example, in an introductory descriptive section (omitted in the book version),
Ballard describes “the diffusing smoke-pall of some distant but enormous
conflagration,” which is certainly canonical Ballardian usage. It's just not yoked to
...
John Boston, Damien Broderick, 2013
3
Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 2.1
A joint interview with British novelist Toby Litt for ballardian.com, a blog
investigating Ballard's work and related ballardian phenomena, is at: http://www.
ballardian.com/the-stuff-of-now-toby-litton-jg-ballard/. David Simmons David ...
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.
J.G Ballard, Simon Sellars, Dan O’Hara, 2012
5
The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition)
Sometime in the near future, in a world overgrown by jungle and threatened by steadily rising temperatures and seas, a diminished humankind stuggles to hold its own against proliferating plant and reptile life.
49) The Collins English Dictionary defines 'Ballardian' as 'resembling or
suggestive of the conditions' depicted in Ballard's works, including 'dystopian
modernity' and 'bleak manmade landscapes'. While it contains an element of truth
with ...
Martin Dines, Timotheus Vermeulen, 2013
7
A Companion to Science Fiction
In a notorious review published in Galaxy in December 1966, Algis Budrys laid
into Thomas Disch's The Genocides (1965) as a pretentious mimicry of
Ballardian models. A bleak disaster story, the novel chronicles the gradual
extermination of ...
8
Myth, Literature and the Unconscious
London: Frederick Muller. Holliday, M. (2007). A home and a grave: Mike
Holliday on The Unlimited Dream Company. Ballardian, 17 Tuly 2007. http://www
.ballardian.com/ home—and-a-grave, accessed 23 December 2010. Larrissy, E. (
2006).
Leon Burnett, Sanja Bahun, Roderick Main, 2013
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Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and ...
In the same period Aramaki incorporated Ballardian influences in early short
stories such as "Yawarakai Tokei" (Soft Clocks; 1968-1971), his hard-scientific re-
interpretation of Salvador Dali's surrealistic paintings, which was translated by ...
10
Panic and Mourning: The Cultural Work of Trauma
Shortly after his death in 2009, his younger colleague Jonathan Lethem wrote an
essay on him in the New York Times, praising “the stark visionary consistency of
the motifs that earned him that rarest of literary awards, an adjective: Ballardian” ...
Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz, Cátia Ferreira, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BALLARDIAN»
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Ballardian is used in the context of the following news items.
Goldsmiths Investigative Spirit Shines In 2015 BA Fine Art Degree …
By collecting photographs of roller derby girls' butts, the artist at first glance seems to present us with the Ballardian flip-side to the shiny surface ... «ArtLyst, Jun 15»
'Love + Hate: Stories and Essays', by Hanif Kureishi
The first, “Flight 423”, is a Ballardian account of a nightmarish flight that is never cleared for landing. In “This Door Is Shut” Farhana returns to ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Apocalypse, girl
Sitting somewhere between bawdy poet, avant-garde Ballardian sci-fi author, experimental composer, and actual pop star, Hval's unique brain ... «Under the Radar Mag, Jun 15»
The flag we'll use to colonize the galaxy
The mockup art is brilliantly Ballardian. Who does not appreciate the mounting excitement of being in an empty committee room when no-one ... «Boing Boing, May 15»
We thought we could tweet our way to a socialist paradise. The …
The England that was not keen on Labour was there in those shopping-centre car parks, those emptied-out Ballardian landscapes. This feeling ... «The Guardian, May 15»
A cat film festival, an Avengers triple bill and more of this week's best …
... from 'Death Race 2000' to 'Straw Dogs' for its Ballardian story about a future where cops and Hell's Angels stage protracted guerrilla warfare ... «Time Out London, Apr 15»
Blur – The Magic Whip
... disconnection with late Capitalism – a recurring Blur / Albarn theme, no matter how obtusely tackled – is the hazy Ballardian balladry of 'New ... «The List, Apr 15»
Nostalgia trip: three takes on the theme of celebrity
The Ballardian landscape is an unsettling vision of cold concrete and sodium-vapour lighting, of sexual voyeurism, the cult of celebrity, banal ... «South China Morning Post, Apr 15»
Jaguar Attempts an Insane High-Wire Crossing of the River Thames
Images of the white Jag suspended above the gray water are almost poetic in a bleak, Ballardian way. They convey a sad sense of loneliness ... «Adweek, Mar 15»
Tom McCarthy: a Kafka for the Google age
He lives with his young family just round the corner from the Barbican, having moved down from a "very Ballardian" tower block on the Golden ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
