Preexisting Conditions : Recounting the Plague

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"Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mortality and vulnerability is not just an individual concern. The narratives examined in this book both confirm the desire to avoid this recognition as well as the different ways it asserts itself nev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weber, Samuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brooklyn : Zone Books, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Epidemics > Social aspects.
Epidemics in literature.
Epidemics.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General
Epidemics > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface. The End of the World as We Knew It
  • I. The Local and the General
  • II. Monotheological Antecedents: Life against the Living (Genesis, Exodus)
  • III. Polytheistic Antecedents: The Plague as Stasis (Thucydides)
  • IV. Storytelling as Friction (Boccaccio, The Decameron)
  • V. The Lutheran Response: The Neighbor (Luther, "Should a Christian Flee the Plague?")
  • VI. "Out of all Measures" (Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
  • VII. Tragedy as Trauerspiel (Kleist, The Tragedy of Robert Guiscard, Duke of the Normans)
  • VIII. Preexisting Conditions (Artaud, "The Theater and the Plague")
  • IX. Confinement (Camus, The Plague)
  • X. Living with Plagues (Hölderlin, "Remarks on Sophocles's Oedipus")
  • Notes
  • Index

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