Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780262048323
ISBN-13 : 0262048329
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 by : J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels—from the notorious Crash (1973) to the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984)—Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms. The Selected Nonfiction of J. G. Ballard collects the most significant short nonfiction of Ballard’s fifty-year career, extending the range of the only previous collection of his nonfiction, A User’s Guide to the Millennium (1996), which selected essays and reviews published between 1962 and 1995. A decade on from Ballard’s death in 2009, a new generation of readers needs a new collection. In the period following A User’s Guide, Ballard’s writing addressed 9/11, British politics from New Labour onward, and what he termed “the rise of soft fascism”—a diagnosis that maintains its relevance amid a shift toward right populism in European and US politics. Beautifully edited by Ballard scholar and novelist Mark Blacklock, this volume includes Ballard’s editorials and manifestos; commentaries on his own work; commentaries on the work of others; reviews; and more. Above all, it makes the case for the currency of Ballard’s work at a contemporary juncture at which so many of his diagnoses concerning the media and politics have become apparent.

Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780262375733
ISBN-13 : 0262375737
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 by : J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels—from the notorious Crash (1973) to the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984)—Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms. The Selected Nonfiction of J. G. Ballard collects the most significant short nonfiction of Ballard’s fifty-year career, extending the range of the only previous collection of his nonfiction, A User’s Guide to the Millennium (1996), which selected essays and reviews published between 1962 and 1995. A decade on from Ballard’s death in 2009, a new generation of readers needs a new collection. In the period following A User’s Guide, Ballard’s writing addressed 9/11, British politics from New Labour onward, and what he termed “the rise of soft fascism”—a diagnosis that maintains its relevance amid a shift toward right populism in European and US politics. Beautifully edited by Ballard scholar and novelist Mark Blacklock, this volume includes Ballard’s editorials and manifestos; commentaries on his own work; commentaries on the work of others; reviews; and more. Above all, it makes the case for the currency of Ballard’s work at a contemporary juncture at which so many of his diagnoses concerning the media and politics have become apparent.

J. G. Ballard’s Crash

J. G. Ballard’s Crash
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 95
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ISBN-10 : 9783031730948
ISBN-13 : 3031730941
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis J. G. Ballard’s Crash by : Paul March-Russell

A User's Guide to the Millennium

A User's Guide to the Millennium
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0312156839
ISBN-13 : 9780312156831
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis A User's Guide to the Millennium by : J. G. Ballard

A collection of novelist's non-fiction writings spanning more than thirty years addresses topics including the arts, science, literature, popular culture, and his own life.

Steinbeck's Uneasy America

Steinbeck's Uneasy America
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780817361815
ISBN-13 : 0817361812
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Steinbeck's Uneasy America by : Barbara A. Heavilin

The first scholarly assessment of Steinbeck's bestselling travelogue Travels with Charley, published in 1962, a narrative that blurs the lines between nonfiction and fiction Steinbeck's Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck's best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America's troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two small strokes and anxious that he had lost touch with America, he embarked on a cross-country road trip accompanied by his wife's standard poodle, Charley. Two years later, he published Travels with Charley to popular acclaim and robust sales. Throughout this narrative, Steinbeck insists that all of our perceptions are "warped" by personality, history, and society. And while this hybrid and experimental book has long been accepted as an accurate account of his journey, journalists and scholars agree that the narrative is part factual, part fiction--America as seen through Steinbeck's particular "warp." The work is long overdue for scholarly assessment. Steinbeck's Uneasy America explores three main topics. Part 1 explores genre and form to consider the degree to which the work is fiction or nonfiction. Part 2 assesses Steinbeck's increasingly bleak assessment of America--almost a jeremiad that warns citizens of ecological excess and political apathy. Part 3 focuses on Travels with Charley as a road text, travel adventure, and literary influence. This volume's authors offer rich scholarly insights and a wealth of stories, facts, and anecdotes about Steinbeck and the adventures and misadventures he and Charley met on the road. Lively and groundbreaking, the collection both enlightens and enlivens discussions of Steinbeck and of the twentieth-century American book world. CONTRIBUTORS Danica Čerče / William P. Childers / Donald V. Coers / Robert DeMott / Cecilia Donohue / Charles Etheridge / Mimi R. Gladstein / Barbara A. Heavilin / Kathleen Hicks / Carter Davis Johnson / Gavin Jones / Sally S. Kleberg / Jay Parini / Brian Railsback / Susan Shillinglaw / Nicholas P. Taylor

The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition

The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 1340
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ISBN-10 : 0312376596
ISBN-13 : 9780312376598
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition by : The New York Times

Introducing a comprehensive update and complete revision of the authoritative reference work from the award-winning daily paper, this one-volume reference book informs, educates, and clarifies answers to hundreds of topics.

Uneven Futures

Uneven Futures
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780262543941
ISBN-13 : 026254394X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Uneven Futures by : Ida Yoshinaga

Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium. The explosion in speculative/science fiction (SF) across different media from the late twentieth century to the present has compelled those in the field of SF studies to rethink the community’s identity, orientation, and stakes. In this edited collection, more than forty writers, critics, game designers, scholars, and activists explore core SF texts, with an eye toward a future in which corporations dominate both the means of production and the means of distribution and governments rely on powerful surveillance and carceral technologies. The essays, international in scope, demonstrate the diversity of SF through a balance of popular mass-market novels, comics, films, games, TV shows, creepypastas, and more niche works. SF works explored range from Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi, 2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal, Terra Nullius by Claire Coleman, Watchmen and X-Men comics, and the Marvel film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, to the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin, and the Wormwood trilogy by Tade Thompson. In an era in which ecological disaster and global pandemics regularly expose and intensify deep political-economic inequalities, what futures has SF anticipated? What survival strategies has it provided us? Can it help us to deal with, and grow beyond, the inequalities and injustices of our times? Unlike other books of speculative/science fiction criticism, Uneven Futures uses a think piece format to make its critical insights engaging to a wide audience. The essays inspire visions of better possible futures—drawing on feminist, queer, and global speculative engagements with Indigenous, Latinx, and Afro- and African futurisms—while imparting important lessons for political organizing in the present. Contributors: Ben Abraham, Emmet Asher-Perrin, Brent Ryan Bellamy, Gerry Canavan, Andrew Ferguson, Fabio Fernandes, Dexter Gabriel, M. Elizabeth Ginway, Sean Guynes, Ouissal Harize, David M. Higgins, Veronica Hollinger, Allanah Hunt, Nicola Hunte, Nathaniel Isaacson, Ayana Jamieson, Darshana Jayemanne, Gwyneth Jones, Brendan Keogh, Sami Ahmad Khan, Cameron Kunzelman, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Isiah Lavender III, Caryn Lesuma, Karen Lord, Sarah Marrs, Farah Mendlesohn, Cathryn Merla-Watson, Hugh Charles O’Connell, B. Pladek, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Shaviro, Rebekah Sheldon, Alison Sperling, Alfredo Suppia, Bogi Takács, Taryne Jade Taylor, Sherryl Vint, Kirin Wachter-Grene, Ida Yoshinaga.

Extreme Metaphors

Extreme Metaphors
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 580
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ISBN-10 : 9780007467235
ISBN-13 : 0007467230
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Extreme Metaphors by : J. G. Ballard

A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.

Time: Almanac 2007

Time: Almanac 2007
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Publisher : Time Almanac
Total Pages : 992
Release :
ISBN-10 : 193340549X
ISBN-13 : 9781933405490
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Time: Almanac 2007 by : Editors of Time Magazine

From global trends to national events, this resource contains all the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute facts, statistics, and information readers will ever need.

Of Men and Their Making

Of Men and Their Making
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Publisher : Allan Lane
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004628707
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Of Men and Their Making by : John Steinbeck

Steinbeck's writing was fuelled by a need to observe things firsthand, whether as a journalist or novelist. The huge success of The Grapes of Wrath enabled him to travel the world, ceaselessly writing about the great events of each decade. This collection brings together the greatest of those dispatches - from countries as diverse as Vietnam, Britain, Morocco and Italy. In addition, it reproduces 'America and the Americans', a gripping account of the US in the 1960s based on Steinbeck's observations on racism, moral decline & the environment. The extremely enjoyable book makes an important point about Steinbeck's oeuvre, showing just how important journalism was to his career as a writer.