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Course Hero. "The Drowned World Study Guide." October 18, 2019. Accessed November 29, 2020. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Drowned-World/.
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Course Hero, "The Drowned World Study Guide," October 18, 2019, accessed November 29, 2020, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Drowned-World/.
Overview
Author
J.G. Ballard
Year Published
1962
Type
Novel
Genre
Dystopian
Perspective and Narrator
The Drowned World is narrated by a third-person omniscient narrator.
Tense
The Drowned World is narrated in the past tense.
About the Title
The title The Drowned World refers to a dystopian future in which warming temperatures have contributed to rising sea levels that have flooded many cities and towns, changing the world's topography. Most buildings have been submerged, and heat has contributed to a spreading jungle that hosts giant reptiles.
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