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Crash (1973) by the British novelist, J.G. Ballard, is an iconic yet troubling work of the New Wave in science fiction, primarily associated with the London-based magazine New Worlds, and regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of the genre. This study not only introduces the major critical arguments about the novel but also takes them to task as part of a detailed thesis that reads Crash back into the legacy of modernism in science fiction. This critique makes a strategic intervention into how twentieth-century literary history has been (falsely) divided into modernist and postmodern periods - as well as into divisions between "high" (modernist) literature and "low" popular culture (SF). The book therefore contributes to both SF studies and the expanding field of the New Modernist Studies. Each chapter builds successively upon its predecessor, so as to offer a coherent yet wide-ranging thesis across literature, critical theory, the visual arts, and popular media. Besides offering a critical introduction to the novel and the theories with which it has been read, the book also raises questions of ethics, feminism, and race with which Crash has not usually been identified. The aim is an interdisciplinary text that appeals to a wide variety of readers and provide points of departure for further research.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: J. G. Ballard's "Crash"
• Subtitle: A Critical Companion
• Author: Paul March-Russell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 109
• EAN: 9783031730931
• ID: 46477990
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 mm
• Published: 2024

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