Planned publication: Constructing Ballardian Landscapes: From Shanghai to Shepperton

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  http://confluence.man.poznan.pl/community/display/FBCMETGUIDE
• Title:
  
  
  Constructing Ballardian Landscapes: From Shanghai to Shepperton
• Group publication title:
  
  
  Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Creator:
  
  
  Tereszewski, Marcin
  
• Subject and Keywords:
  
  
  landscape
   ;
  dwelling
   ;
  phenomenology
   ;
  
  
  Graham Ballard, James
   ;
  Ingold, Tim
   ;
  Heidegger, Martin
• Abstract:
  
  
  A peculiar type of landscape dominates much of James Graham Ballard’s fiction: a shallow and abandoned environment characterised by an ominous sense of disconnectedness. With his formative years spent in Shanghai, in an artificially reconstructed English landscape, Ballard’s idea of England and Englishness was later confronted with the “real” England upon his return. From thereon landscapes were marked by artificiality, which, as will be argued, accounts for the lingering sense of disconnectedness between the protagonists in his works of fiction and the landscapes they inhabit. Drawing on Tim Ingold’s dwelling perspective on landscapes, this paper will trace the particular link that exists between Ballard’s personal experiences with English landscapes and the fictionalized environments in his work, arguing that these characters are presented as enduring the absence of what Martin Heidegger referred to as “dwelling.” Without the possibility of dwelling, these protagonists are cast into the role of internal émigrés in whatever environment they find themselves in.
• Place of publishing:
  
  Wrocław
• Date issued:
  
  2025
• Resource Type:
  
  
  text
   ;
  
  
  tekst
• Detailed Type:
  
  
  article
   ;
  
  
  artykuł
• Identifier:
  
  https://doi.org/10.34616/ajmp.2025.23.15  ;
  e-ISSN 2353-3218
   ;
  ISSN 2299-7164
• Language:
  
  eng
• Abstract Language :
  
  eng
• Access rights:
  
  
  Attribution, ShareAlike
   ;
  
  
  Uznanie autorstwa, Na tych samych warunkach
• License:
  
  
  Creative Commons - Attribution, ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en  ;
  
  
  Creative Commons - Uznanie autorstwa, Na tych samych warunkach (CC BY-SA 3.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.pl
• Location of original object:
  
  
  College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wrocław
   ;
  
  
  Kolegium Międzydziedzinowych Studiów Indywidualnych, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
• Autor opisu:
  
  
  MPi

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