Research Article

Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories

Number: 49 June 20, 2023
  • Barış Ağır
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Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories

Abstract

This study mainly applies Lawrence Buell’s environmental criticism to study the urban environment in J. G. Ballard’s short stories from two aspects: the environmental problems and humankind’s failed resistances to them. Through studying these aspects, the paper discloses Ballard’s reproof of the industrial society’s disrespect towards nature and his ecological concerns over the development of both the environment and the human being. The paper will study the status of the urban environment from two angles: the absence of green landscape and the prevalence of pollution. The paper will interpret how the characters attempt to resist the predicaments but end up in failures. Though their attempts do not succeed, seeing from Buell’s theory, this kind of pessimistic extremity in Ballard’s imagination could also reflect his determination of arousing readers’ awe in facing nature and their consciousness of environmental protection. By stressing the environmental predicaments, humankind’s crises under the predicaments, and the futile resistances, Ballard’s urban short stories express a profound ecological concern with the urban environment and humanity’s existential status.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Barış Ağır This is me
0000-0002-7132-5844
Türkiye

Early Pub Date

June 13, 2023

Publication Date

June 20, 2023

Submission Date

November 26, 2021

Acceptance Date

March 23, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Number: 49

APA
Ağır, B. (2023). Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 49, 15-26. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1313153
AMA
1.Ağır B. Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories. SEFAD. 2023;(49):15-26. doi:10.21497/sefad.1313153
Chicago
Ağır, Barış. 2023. “Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, nos. 49: 15-26. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1313153.
EndNote
Ağır B (June 1, 2023) Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 49 15–26.
IEEE
[1]B. Ağır, “Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories”, SEFAD, no. 49, pp. 15–26, June 2023, doi: 10.21497/sefad.1313153.
ISNAD
Ağır, Barış. “Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 49 (June 1, 2023): 15-26. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1313153.
JAMA
1.Ağır B. Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories. SEFAD. 2023;:15–26.
MLA
Ağır, Barış. “Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 49, June 2023, pp. 15-26, doi:10.21497/sefad.1313153.
Vancouver
1.Barış Ağır. Environmental Crisis in Urban Areas in J. G. Ballard’s Short Stories. SEFAD. 2023 Jun. 1;(49):15-26. doi:10.21497/sefad.1313153

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