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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Mapping a Surrealist Historiography: Recontextualising The Drowned World and The Crystal World
2 Reading The Atrocity Exhibition: A History of Forms
3 Radical Surrealism: Performance, Photography and History in Crash
4 Convulsive Autobiography: Negotiating History, Memory and Fiction in Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women
5 The Surrealist Fait Divers: Uncovering Violent Histories in Running Wild, Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes and Millennium People
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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J. G. BALLARD’S SURREALIST IMAGINATION

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J. G. Ballard’s Surrealist Imagination Spectacular Authorship

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