What does "ballardian" mean?

Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity.

Ballardian

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Adjective

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Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity.
"Yet the sense of evil—which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture—is nowhere present in the Ballardian text."

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"Yet the sense of evil—which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture—is nowhere present in the Ballardian text."

Etymology

From Ballard + -ian.

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