The cultural life of catastrophes and crises /
"Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty...
Други автори: | Meiner, Carsten, (Editor), Veel, Kristin, (Editor) |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2012]
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Серия: |
Concepts for the study of culture ;
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Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
Cultural life of catastrophes and crises. |
Съдържание:
- I. Thinking catastrophes and crises. The Cultural Analysis of Disaster / Holm, Isak Winkel ; Catastrophic Turns
- From the Literary History of the Catastrophic / Eliassen, Knut Ove ; Making Crises and Catastrophes
- How Metaphors and Narratives shape their Cultural Life / Nunning, Ansgar ; The Metaphysics of Catastrophe
- Voltaire's Candide / Meiner, Carsten ; Adorno's Idea of Art as the Revelation of a Permanent and Universal Catastrophe / Soewarta, Angus.
- II. Witnessing and remembering catastrophes and crises. Memory Crisis
- Remembering and Forgetting in Post-genocide Rwanda / Nyirubugara, Olivier ; Catastrophe, Documentary and the Limits of Cinematic Representation / Sprah, Andrej ; The Excess of Kali Yuga
- Repetition, Remembrance and Longing / Joshi, Sarah A. ; The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Junger's Photo Books / Capeloa Gil, Isabel ; Dreaming the American Nightmare
- The Cultural Life of 9/11 / Kooijman, Jaap.
- III. Imagining catastrophes and crises. Macbeth
- The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination / Kallenbach, Ulla ; "The Dead shall inherit the Dead"
- After Life and beyond Catastrophe in Mark Strand's Post-Apocalyptic Poetry / Dietrich, Rene ;September 11 and the Disruption of Singularity / Goncʹalves, Diana ; Resounding Catastrophe
- Auditory Perspectives on 9/11 / Bj©ırnsten, Thomas ; The Frailty of Everything
- Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Modern Disaster Discourse / Winkel Holm, Isak.
- IV. Desiring and consuming catastrophes and crises. The Aesthetics of Catastrophe
- Edmund Burke on Sympathy / Hankovszky, Aniko ; Kunst macht frei
- Misrepresenting the Holocaust in Jake and Dinos Chapman's Hell / Mackintosh, Alex ; The New Flesh
- A Variation on David Cronenberg's Videodrome and Pierre Klossowski's La monnaie vivante / Perret, Catherine ; "Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped"
- When the World ends in a Mall: Dawn of the Dead, WALL-E, The Wild Blue Yonder / Brodesco, Alberto ; Freak Ecology
- An Introduction to the Fictional History of Natural Disaster / Wind Meyhoff, Karsten.