All Outputs (3)

Literature, Democracy and the Object: from Lukács to Rancière and Back (2021)
Journal Article
Evans, J. (2021). Literature, Democracy and the Object: from Lukács to Rancière and Back. Angelaki, 26(5), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2021.1963079

The idea of “literary democracy” can be traced back to the early twentieth century, which this article does by looking initially at the work of Georg Lukács. His distinctly humanist view of literary democracy resonates with other key thinkers, includ... Read More about Literature, Democracy and the Object: from Lukács to Rancière and Back.

The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, J. (2020). The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 53(3), 436-451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8624624

The article identifies a shift in J. G. Ballard’s work from a preoccupation with the individual to a preoccupation with the collective. It reads Ballard’s late fiction as being part of a wider turn in the culture of Western, neoliberal states toward... Read More about The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective.

Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory (2019)
Book
EVANS, J. (2019). Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683722