CONSUMERISM AND THE AESTHETICISATION OF VIOLENCE IN J.G. BALLARD’S KINGDOM COME

• Authors: Macsiniuc Cornelia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Ballard’s late fiction explores obsessively the processes which engender uncontrollable violence and various forms of social psychopathology in the contemporary society of affluence. The present paper focuses on the representation, in his last novel, Kingdom Come, of consumerism as an aestheticised form of violence, with a fascist-like, totalitarian ethos, a characteristic product of an age of de-differentiation and loss of meaning, dominated by media-generated messiahs.

Keywords

EN

Ballard; consumerism; fascism; transaesthetics; violence

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 89-105

Contributors

author

Macsiniuc Cornelia

• Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania