The cultural life of catastrophes and crises /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2012]
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| Series: | Concepts for the study of culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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 / Nünning, 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 / Šprah, Andrej ; The Excess of Kali Yuga - Repetition, Remembrance and Longing / Joshi, Sarah A. ; The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger'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, René ;September 11 and the Disruption of Singularity / Gonçalves, Diana ; Resounding Catastrophe - Auditory Perspectives on 9/11 / Bjørnsten, 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, Anikó ; 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.