The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis

Herausgeber: Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia; Battisti, Chiara; Kuznetski, Julia

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides insight into a complex phenomenon. The collection examines crises through literary texts in relation to the environment, finance, migration and diaspora, war, human rights, values and identity, health, politics, terrorism, and technology

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9781032424644
• ISBN-10: 1032424648
• Artikelnr.: 70373698

Autorenporträt

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is Associate Professor at the Department of English and German Philology in the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has co-edited several books, including Trauma Narratives and Herstory (with Sonya Andermahr; 2013) and Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature (with María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro; 2017). Julia Kuznetski is Professor of English at the School of Humanities of Tallinn University, Estonia. Her work includes Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (co-edited with Silvia Pellicer-Ortín; Routledge, 2019). Chiara Battisti is an Associate Professor of AnglöAmerican Languages and Literatures at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona, Italy. Her publications include Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature (2023) and Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature (co-edited with S. Fiorato, M. Nicolini, T. Perrin; 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Introduction: Literature and crises across historical scales Julia Kuznetski, Chiara Battisti and Silvia Pellicer
Ortin PART I - ADDRESSING CRISES THROUGH LITERATURE I.I Theoretical approaches to crises 1. What matters: Literature's importance in times of crisis Jean
Michel Ganteau 2. The ethics and value of literature in times of crisis Susana Onega 3. Whose crisis? Framing 9/11 and the "war on terror" Michael C. Frank 4. Migration crisis in contemporary literature: A complicated journey through loss and hope Merve Sar
kayä
en 5. War, migration and human rights: Strategies of voicing in contemporary fiction Sue Vice 6. Care crisis Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury 7. Climate crisis and literature: Towards propositive narratives Gala Arias Rubio I.II Literary genres and crises 8. Physical and spiritual crises in mediaeval and early English Renaissance drama Paul Majkut 9. Lines of exposure: Poetry and crisis Charles I. Armstrong 10. Life-writing practices: A way out of crisis? Silvia Pellicer
Ortín 11. Too burning for fiction? Women writing nonfiction in times of crisis Julia Kuznetski 12. The resilient frame: Graphic narratives and crises representation Chiara Battisti 13. Ecosystems of change in the Baltics: Decoloniality and storytelling in art Ieva Astahovska 14. "When it changed": Crisis in science fiction and speculative literature Raphael Kabo PART II - CRISES IN LITERATURES ACROSS THE WORLD II.I Political and ideological crises in a historical perspective 15. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini: literature as the art of mediation Fabio Forner 16. "Fair sequence and succession": Shakespeare and the Elizabethan succession crisis Harvey Wiltshire 17. The Devil in disguise: Writing the witch in Jacobean law and literature Ian Ward 18. Annus mirabilis and the rhyming of history Paul Majkut 19. This is not a crisis. The rhetorical construction of an epistemic and ideological crisis (Sweden) Leif Dahlberg 20. The crisis of polarisation: The example of Jonathan Coe Robert Eaglestone II.II War, migration and violence 21. The inexhaustible human vectors: War, crisis, literature-from Beowulf to Ian McEwan Eva M. Pérez
Rodríguez 22. Identity struggles and domestic turmoil in Ay
e Kulin's Tutsak güne
Emrah Atasoy 23. The crisis of humanism, the Holocaust, and "The Jewish Dog" as a de/re-humanising figure in French literature Helena Duffy 24. Hermeneutical (in) justice and crisis: A case study of Belfast and the "Troubles" Cecilia Beecher Martins 25. Poetry as an anthropological trailblazer in situations of crisis: Russophone poets' answer Russia's aggression against Ukraine and catastrophic transformation of the political regime (2022-2024) Ilya Kukulin 26. The year war did not begin: Representations of war in Estonian literature Piret Viires II.III Values and identity crises 27. One man's dystopia is another woman's Utopia: Humanity revolutionised, according to Stanis
awa Przybyszewska Ksenia Shmydkaya 28. Experiences, learning and consequences of the pandemic: A critical eye at Spanish literature through the text of Marta Sanz Noelia Núñez Preza 29. Ukrainian literary imaginaries of the past after 1991: From substitution to restoration? Alexander Dmitriev 30. Liminal states of consciousness and crises of affect in contemporary Chinese literature Ivan Stacy 31. Transitory identities and heterotopic spaces of crisis in the narratives of contemporary Brazilian women writers Izabel Brandão 32. Crises down under: An approach to values and identity in contemporary Australian writing Bárbara Arizti 33. Epic voices from Africa: Historical decolonial re-writings Eugenia Ossana II.IV. Environmental crises and biopolitics 34. "Art in crisis": The novel in the age of digital media and global change Markku Lehtimäki 35. Biopolitics and crisis in South Asian literary representations of midwifery and surrogacy Antonia Navarro
Tejero 36.Transecology repairs the capitalist metabolic rift? A reading of Chôsansei [Birth conscription] by Japanese novelist Tanaka Chôko MORITA Keitaro II.V Technological crises and posthumanism 37. Technological crisis and posthumanity in Chinese philosophy and literature Chan Kit
sze Amy 38. Crisis, in extremis: Posthuman vulnerability in Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville's The last man Ivan Callus 39. "If you are a man Winston, you are the last man:" Social crisis and the wounded storyteller in the dystopian universe of George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four Sidia Fiorato 40. Transhumanism and posthumanism: The enhancement or the end of the human? Daniela Carpi 41. Literature at the crossroad in digital age: A case study at IULM University Paola Carbone 42. The Pause Letter, the existential AI crisis and digital ideology Anders Hedman Index