Anywhere but here: The Competing (and complementary) postmodern nostalgias of J. G Ballard and Douglas Coupland

This thesis addresses postmodern nostalgia in the fictions of JG. Ballard and Douglas Coupland. By reading them alongside the work of Svetlana Baym, Fredric Jameson, Waiter Benjamin and Linda Hutcheon among others, it firstly builds upon and questions Baym's categories of restorative and reflec...

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Main Author: Paknadel, Alexis
Published: Lancaster University 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651297