Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Pandemic Protagonists

Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

Edited by: Yvonne Völkl , Julia Obermayr and Elisabeth Hobisch

Volume 284 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466162

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Yvonne Völkl is a literary and cultural studies scholar in the field of Romance studies. Her research focuses on 18th-century literature and press, French-Canadian migrant literature and contemporary »Corona Fictions«.
Julia Obermayr is a cultural studies and media scholar. In 2019 she received the 14th Scientific Award of the Austrian-Canadian Society for her research on female identities in Lesbian Web Series. She specializes in cultural studies, social change, lesbian/LGBT studies and diversity, minority identities, and female representations in audiovisual media - currently in »Corona Fictions« - mainly in Romance speaking Europe and the Americas.
Elisabeth Hobisch is a literary and cultural studies scholar in the field of Romance studies. For her PhD thesis on the epistolary form in the Spanish Spectators, she received the »Award of Excellence 2016« of the Austrian Minister of Science, Investigation and Economy. Her main research interests concern 18th-century moral press in France and Spain, the digital humanities and »Corona Fictions«.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr and Elisabeth Hobisch Open Access Download PDF	9
Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer Open Access Download PDF	23
Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers Martina Stemberger Open Access Download PDF	41
Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions Elisabeth Hobisch Open Access Download PDF	65
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 Justyna Ziarkowska Open Access Download PDF	87
Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions Paulina Pająk Open Access Download PDF	99
‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19 Luana Bermúdez Open Access Download PDF	117
Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010) Louis Mühlethaler Open Access Download PDF	137
The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature Aureo Lustosa Guerios Open Access Download PDF	157
‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Open Access Download PDF	179
The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity Ana Carolina Torquato and Aureo Lustosa Guerios Open Access Download PDF	199
Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema Claire Demoulin Open Access Download PDF	223
Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics Małgorzata Sugiera Open Access Download PDF	239
Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana Meozzi Meozzi Open Access Download PDF	257
Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions Julia Obermayr Open Access Download PDF	277
Authors Open Access Download PDF	303

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 308
Keywords: Culture; Media; Covid-19; Pandemic; Literature; Film; Medicine; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839466162