Meiner / Veel The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028295-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Meiner, Carsten

Veel, Kristin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;9
2;I. Thinking Catastrophes and Crises;21
2.1;The Cultural Analysis of Disaster;23
2.2;Catastrophic Turns – From the Literary History of the Catastrophic;41
2.3;Making Crises and Catastrophes – How Metaphors and Narratives shape their Cultural Life;67
2.4;Carsten Meiner: The Metaphysics of Catastrophe – Voltaire’s Candide;97
2.5;Adorno’s Idea of Art as the Revelation of a Permanent and Universal Catastrophe;111
3;II. Witnessing and Remembering Catastrophes and Crises;121
3.1;Memory Crisis – Remembering and Forgetting in Post-genocide Rwanda;123
3.2;Catastrophe, Documentary and the Limits of Cinematic Representation;133
3.3;The Excess of Kali Yuga – Repetition, Remembrance and Longing;145
3.4;The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger’s Photo Books;155
3.5;Dreaming the American Nightmare – The Cultural Life of 9/11;185
4;III. Imagining Catastrophes and Crises;199
4.1;Macbeth – The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination;201
4.2;“The Dead shall inherit the Dead” – After Life and beyond Catastrophe in Mark Strand’s Post-Apocalyptic Poetry;211
4.3;September 11 and the Disruption of Singularity;221
4.4;Resounding Catastrophe – Auditory Perspectives on 9/11;231
4.5;The Frailty of Everything – Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Modern Disaster Discourse;241
5;IV. Desiring and Consuming Catastrophes and Crises;259
5.1;The Aesthetics of Catastrophe – Edmund Burke on Sympathy;259
5.2;Kunst macht frei – Misrepresenting the Holocaust in Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Hell;271
5.3;The New Flesh – A Variation on David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Pierre Klossowski’s La monnaie vivante;281
5.4;“Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped” – When the World ends in a Mall: Dawn of the Dead, WALL-E, The Wild Blue Yonder;291
5.5;Freak Ecology – An Introduction to the Fictional History of Natural Disaster;303
6;List of Contributors;317
7;Index;319

Über Autor(innen)

Meiner, Carsten
Carsten Meiner and Kristin Veel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.