The cultural life of catastrophes and crises /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Meiner, Carsten, Veel, Kristin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Series:Concepts for the study of culture ; 3.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.