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A comprehensive study of Gregory Corso's work which was central to
the movement of the Beat Generation (Ginsberg, Kerouac,
Ferlinghetti, Snyder). Author Gregory Stephenson is well qualified
to write about Corso, as the former editor of PEARL literary review
and author of The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the
Beat Generation.
The author of Empire of the Sun and other acclaimed novels and
stories, British science fiction writer J. G. Ballard is here given
a penetrating analysis, his work being explored in terms of its
internal coherence, its continuity and development, and its mythic
and metaphysical aspects. Ballard's fiction is widely considered to
be a critique of our secular, rational, technological culture, but
this study departs from earlier ones that label him a fatalistic or
nihilistic writer obsessed with entropy, devolution, and
dissolution in showing him, instead, to be most deeply concerned
with the redemption and regeneration of the human psyche. With
Ballard's focus so much on visionary perception and mystical
transcendence, Gregory Stephenson argues for his placement in the
Romantic visionary tradition. A comprehensive examination of
Ballard's work, this study traces his output and accomplishments
over four decades, exploring their thematic development. Ballard is
considered in relation to a number of British and American writers
of the post-World War II era--within and beyond the often
too-rigidly applied categorization of science fiction, as well as
to poets and novelists of the past.
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