Urban Structures and Human Psychology: A geocritical study of J.G Ballard’s Highrise and Cocaine Nights
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2020.
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10361-148282021-07-27T21:01:26Z Urban Structures and Human Psychology: A geocritical study of J.G Ballard’s Highrise and Cocaine Nights Ahmed, Syeda Nubaira Saba, Anika Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Urban Structures Human Psychology J.G Ballard’s Highrise J.G Ballard’s Cocaine Nights Geocritical Study This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2020. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-39). In postmodern era, the idea of space, its related concepts and practices such as spatiality, mapping, topography, deterritorialization, and so forth have become a key term for literary and cultural studies. After the end of the Second World War, space began to reassert itself in critical theory which critics have termed as the “spatial turn”. The transformational effects of postmodernism, globalization and other advanced information technologies have helped us to view space from a different angle. Therefore, this dissertation aims to outline a geocentric approach towards the perception of urban space and structures, in addition to exploring the ideas of urban spaces as heterotopic. A geocritical observation of urban spaces has been critically explored through an in-depth analysis of J.G Ballard’s High Rise and Cocaine Nights, where the characters’ view regarding their respective urban spaces as well as structures constantly transformed due to the violence and chaos, they have experienced within the urban structures they resided in. It also changed their psychological state of living in a confined structure. Though critics have read these texts as contrapuntal novels, yet they have not seen it from a geocritical perspective. Therefore, this dissertation attempts to look at these novels from a geocritical viewpoint and present how confined urban structures affect the psychology and moral judgement of modern man. Ahmed , Syeda Nubaira B.A. in English 2021-07-27T05:30:19Z 2021-07-27T05:30:19Z 2020 2020-09 Thesis ID: 16103035 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14828 en_US Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 39 Pages application/pdf Brac University |
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