Format:
1 Online-Ressource (306 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9783839466162
Series Statement:
Culture & theory volume 284
Content:
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.
Content:
Frontmatter-Table of Contents-Acknowledgements-Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction-Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution-Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers-Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions-La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado-Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions-‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19-Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010)-The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature-‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel-The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity-Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema-Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics-Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana-Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions-Authors
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837666168
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe Pandemic Protagonists Bielefeld : transcript, 2023 ISBN 9783837666168
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3837666166
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
COVID-19
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Literaturwissenschaft
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Medientheorie
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Medienwissenschaft
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Kulturwissenschaften
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783839466162
Author information:
Obermayr, Julia 1981-
Author information:
Hobisch, Elisabeth
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