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Psyche in Eco-Apocalypse: A Reading of Ballard's 'The Drowned World'
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Abstract Embodiment of apocalyptic imagination has been a major theme in which many writers have pointed it out especially from the midst of twentieth century onwards. Earth today is vulnerable and would be so dangerous for future generation from now on. Although, J. G. Ballard's narrations do not create an ... mehr
Embodiment of apocalyptic imagination has been a major theme in which many writers have pointed it out especially from the midst of twentieth century onwards. Earth today is vulnerable and would be so dangerous for future generation from now on. Although, J. G. Ballard's narrations do not create an ordinary apocalyptic apprehension of human abolition, but he enters the core of the apocalyptic theme by intertwining our world with an altering people's psyche who try to develop a new relationship with nature. This paper examines Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) from the view of the human psyche in an apocalyptic setting. It follows and analyzes the characters of Dr. Robert Kerans (a biologist) and his team in which they are transformed in the story - both mentally and physically.... weniger
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Apocalypse; Ballard; Climate Change; Environment; Human Psyche; The Drowned World
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 17-21
Zeitschriftentitel
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 60
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)