Format:
1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9783839455593
Series Statement:
Gegenwartsliteratur 4
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Age of Virus Anxiety -- 1. The Virus, the Network, and the Supernatural Media Virus -- 2. Ghostwatch and the Advent of the Network Society -- 3. House of Leaves, the Network Paradigm, and the Abstract Supernatural Media Virus -- 4. The Moral Dimension of the Supernatural Media Virus in the Ring Franchise -- 5. The Digital Supernatural Media Virus and the Network Apocalypse in Kairo and Pulse -- Conclusions: Future Mutations of the Supernatural Media Virus -- Bibliography
Content:
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837655599
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schmitz, Rahel, 1991 - The supernatural media virus Bielefeld : transcript, 2021 ISBN 9783837655599
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3837655598
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Gothic novel
;
Viren
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783839455593
