Pandemic protagonists : viral (re)actions in pandemic and Corona fictions

Pandemic protagonists viral (re)actions in pandemic and Corona fictions

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Völkl, Yvonne, editor (editor), Obermayr, Julia, editor, Hobisch, Elisabeth, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Culture & theory.
Materias:
Epidemics in motion pictures.
Covid-19.
Cultural Studies.
Culture.
Film.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Media.
Medicine.
Pandemic.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009741103206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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