Echoes of architectural modernism in J.G. Ballard's High-Rise
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F20%3A10422056" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/20:10422056 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=pX6EVaGjDp" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=pX6EVaGjDp</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2020-0007" target="_blank" >10.2478/aa-2020-0007</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Echoes of architectural modernism in J.G. Ballard's High-Rise
Original language description
This article pursues the elements of architectural Modernism in James Graham Ballard's 1975 novel High-Rise (1975). The enormous tower block represents a triumph of technological and constructional progress envisioned by the pioneers of modernist architecture. However, Ballard's vision of social development within it is regressive and violent. In order to decipher the nature of the role, or lack thereof, of the tower block in the reformulation of its own social fabric, the paper studies the ways in which the narrative presents aspects analogous to the key elements of architectural modernism. Particular attention is paid to the narrative's reflections of radical and often contradictory visions of key figures of theoretical roots of modernism, such as Le Corbusier and Karel Teige. Their ambiguous stance on the core of modernism not only determines the outcome of the social experiment performed by Ballard in High-Rise, but can also be seen as deforming the building practice until today.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-24867S" target="_blank" >GA20-24867S: Representations of Space in the Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ars Aeterna [online]
ISSN
2450-8497
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
6/12/2
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85099834404