Crash and its thematic cousins

undergraduate thesis

• Author: Leon Kiš
• Mentor: Luka Bekavac (mentor)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Comparative literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-09-15, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Comparative Literature

Abstract

Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash is one of the most controversial pieces of fiction to appear in post-war Europe. It explores, along with the author's three other major novels, the modern world marked by rapid technological change. This spawns a new logic of perversion and seduction, which in turn affects human behavior. The author examines the violence and eroticism produced by the headlong collision of the human subject with the technological landscape.

• Keywords: Crash; Ballard; collision; vehicle; technology; subject; seduction; eroticism; violence; atavism; Freud; Baudrillard; isolation; media
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:594117
• Study programme: Title: Comparative Literature; Study programme type: university; Study level: undergraduate; Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) komparativne književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) komparativne književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-09-20 10:59:31