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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Iterative architecture : a Ballardian text.
AU - Brian, Baker
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - J.G. Ballard’s texts tend to work particularly through the recognition of the component. This is most evident in The Atrocity Exhibition, where each chapter is itself a ‘condensed novel’ and each titled paragraph thereby a ‘chapter’. Here, the architectural/ iterative imperatives of the Ballardian text are at their fullest extent. This article explores the formal propoerties of Ballard's short story 'the Beach Murders' (also known as 'Confetti Royale'), one of Ballard's few texts to explicitly refer to espionage narratives. The article splices 26 critical paragraphs with 26 fictional paragraphs that investigate the conjunction of Ballard and 1960s spy narratives, and particularly poists a connection between the recursive 'T' figure of The Atrocity Exhibition and Ian Fleming's James Bond.
AB - J.G. Ballard’s texts tend to work particularly through the recognition of the component. This is most evident in The Atrocity Exhibition, where each chapter is itself a ‘condensed novel’ and each titled paragraph thereby a ‘chapter’. Here, the architectural/ iterative imperatives of the Ballardian text are at their fullest extent. This article explores the formal propoerties of Ballard's short story 'the Beach Murders' (also known as 'Confetti Royale'), one of Ballard's few texts to explicitly refer to espionage narratives. The article splices 26 critical paragraphs with 26 fictional paragraphs that investigate the conjunction of Ballard and 1960s spy narratives, and particularly poists a connection between the recursive 'T' figure of The Atrocity Exhibition and Ian Fleming's James Bond.
KW - J.G. Ballard
KW - espionage
KW - spy fiction
KW - James Bond
KW - short story
KW - formal experimentation
KW - critical/creative
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 8
EP - 30
JO - 21: Online Journal of Contemporary and Innovative Fiction
JF - 21: Online Journal of Contemporary and Innovative Fiction
SN - 1759-281X
IS - 1
ER -