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J. G. Ballard

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Quotations
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J. G. Ballard Quotes
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James Graham Ballard (born 1930-11-15 in Shanghai) is a British novelist and short-story writer, who has moved from science-fiction to mainstream fiction. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Crash (1973) 1.2 Cocaine Nights (1996) 1.3 A User's Guide to the Millenium...


Biography

Name: J. G. Ballard
Birth Date: November 15, 1930
Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of J(ames) G(raham) Ballard
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J. G. Ballard is perhaps the most important figure to emerge from the British New Wave of science-fiction writers, whose works brought a new degree of literary sophistication and critical respectability to the genre beginning in the late 1950s. To an...
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Biography of J(ames) G(raham) Ballard
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J. G. Ballard is one of the most significant of those British novelists who have established themselves since 1960. Although he established his literary reputation as a science-fiction writer, he has come to believe that the present, rather than the...
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Biography of J. G. Ballard
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J. G. Ballard is "perhaps the most important figure to emerge from the British New Wave of science-fiction writers, whose works brought a new degree of literary sophistication and critical respectability to the genre beginning in the late 1950s,"...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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J. G. Ballard Information
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James Graham Ballard (born 15 November, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His best known books are the controversial Crash, and the autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, both of...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
J.G. Ballard: Voyaging To the Source
04/17/1988: 857 words, approx. 3 pages
THE DAY OF CREATION By J.G. Ballard Farrar Straus Giroux. 254 pp. $17.95 By Brigitte Weeks MANY OF the thousands who bought the paperback of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun are going to be in for a shock when they pick...
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Utopian Studies
"The Angle Between Two Walls": The Fiction of J.G. Ballard.(Review)
01/01/1999: 1,387 words, approx. 5 pages
Roger Luckhurst. "The Angle Between Two Walls": The Fiction of J.G. Ballard. New York: St. Martin's P, 1997. 213 pp. $39.95. ONE OUGHT NOT TO EXPECT a book that seeks to illuminate the works of J.G. Ballard to be simple. Ballard's body of...
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The New York Observer
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle: Mildly Amusing Martial-Arts Romp
4/17/2005: 1,979 words, approx. 7 pages
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, from a screenplay by Mr. Chow, Tsang Kan Cheong, Xin Huo and Chan Man Keung, is difficult for me to evaluate. I know next to nothing about Mr. Chow, even though he's been appearing in Hong Kong films since 1988,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Roger Luckhurst
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In the following essay, Luckhurst discusses both the modernist and postmodernist characteristics of Ballard's work.
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Critical Essay by Roger Luckhurst
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In the following essay, Luckhurst explores stylistic and thematic aspects of Ballard's writing.
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Critical Essay by Gregory Stephenson
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In the following essay, Stephenson analyzes Ballard's thematic employment of illusion.
 


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