J. G. Ballard and the Disaster Story Tradition in England
ISBN 83-91144-86-0
Warsaw 2005
Contens:
Introduction 7
Part I – J.G. Ballard, John Wyndham and the Disaster Story Tradition in England 9
The British Disaster Story 10
John Wyndham’s cosy catastrophes 15
Ballard’s early disaster stories 28
The inner space disaster 35
The televised disaster 46
Part II – J.G. Ballard and the British „New Wave” 55
The British „The Wave” 56
Entropy 61
Disaster 71
The Present Tense 80
Conclusion 86
Part III – J.G. Ballard’s Short Fiction 87
Early psychological stories 90
Sociological fiction 95
Quasi-history 103
The future of the West 114
Part IV – J.G. Ballard’s „The Atrocity Exhibition” as a Contemporary Disaster Novel 121
Disaster Novel 121
The Exhibits 124
The Visions of Disaster 133
The Structure 137
Dr Nathan, the Analyst 146
Catastrophe is here and now 150
Freudian fiction 157
Bibliography 165