The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises (eBook)

Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel (Herausgeber)

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2012
330 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-028295-5 (ISBN)

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Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty of human existence, the passions they trigger and the new behavioral modes they necessitate. The book thus argues that film, art, and literature are privileged and essential ways of understanding what catastrophes are, what they do to us, and how we can deal with them.

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

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

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)
• Reihe/Serie: Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: ART • catastrophes • Crises • Film • Literature • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 3-11-028295-X / 311028295X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-028295-5 / 9783110282955