LEADER 00942cam0-2200313---450- 001 990007980000403321 005 20140224104841.0 010 $a0-521-82867-8 035 $a000798000 035 $aFED01000798000 035 $a(Aleph)000798000FED01 035 $a000798000 100 $a20041229d2003----km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $aeng 102 $aGB 105 $a--------001yy 200 1 $aVirginia Woolf, the intellectual, and the public sphere$fMelba Cuddy-Keane 210 $aCambridge$cCambridge university press$d2003 215 $aX, 237 p.$d24 cm 610 0 $aWoolf, Virginia$aConcezione della cultura 676 $a823.912 700 1$aCuddy-Keane,$bMelba$0496646 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a990007980000403321 952 $a823.912 WOOLF/S 34$bBibl.50256$fFLFBC 959 $aFLFBC 996 $aVirginia Woolf, the intellectual, and the public sphere$9751182 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03723nam 2200493 450 001 9910796398703321 005 20230124194545.0 010 $a0-252-05003-7 035 $a(CKB)3790000000536307 035 $a(OCoLC)993624152 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59642 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5161247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5161247 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11473471 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000536307 100 $a20171223h20172017 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJ. G. Ballard /$fD. Harlan Wilson 210 1$aUrbana, Illinois :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aModern Masters of Science Fiction 311 $a0-252-08295-8 311 $a0-252-04143-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"In a long and productive career J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) achieved his greatest fame late in life when two of his novels, Crash (1973) and Empire of the Sun (1984) were made into acclaimed and award winning films. But he made his start as a science fiction writer, and throughout his life kept returning to sf genres, tweaking and reinventing them, often with a dystopian cast. The Drowned World (1962) is set in a future that eerily foresaw possible consequences of global warming, with London underwater. The Drought (1965) portrays a desertified earth. The Crystal World (1966) imagines the jungles of Africa attacked by a disease that leads them to take in too many minerals, petrifying them, and the disease spreads from species to species. In these and other novels his main attention has been to how different characters deal with disasters that cannot be overcome. He was declared to be "the voice" of New Wave sf by his famous editor, Michael Moorcock, and is widely honored for his psychological exploration of people under extreme stress. In his concrete trilogy--Crash (1973), Concrete Island (1974), and High-Rise (1975)--Ballard took on another major sf theme: technology and human dependence upon it. Again his palette was dark and his plots combustible"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aModern masters of science fiction. 606 $aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.914 686 $aLIT004260$aBIO007000$2bisacsh 700 $aWilson$b D. Harlan$01128126 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796398703321 996 $aJ. G. Ballard$93741312 997 $aUNINA