Legacies of plague in literature, th...
Cooke, Jennifer, (1977-)

 

  • Legacies of plague in literature, theory and film[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 808.8/03561
    書名/作者: Legacies of plague in literature, theory and film/ Jennifer Cooke.
    作者: Cooke, Jennifer,
    出版者: Houndmills [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: x, 226 p. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: Plague in literature.
    標題: Plague - Social aspects.
    標題: Epidemics in literature.
    標題: Psychoanalysis and literature.
    標題: Diseases and literature.
    ISBN: 9780230235427
    ISBN: 0230235425
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
    內容註: Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'I Ain't Dead' -- Writing Plague: Defoe and Camus -- The Politics ofPlague Theatre: Artaud, Capek and Camus -- Oedipus thePharmakos and the Psychoanalytic Plague -- Dreaming Plague and Plaguing Dreams: The Teachings of Psychoanalysis -- Plague, Jews and Fascist Anti-Semites: 'The Great Incurable Malady' -- Screening Plague Images / Plaguing Screen Images: von Trier's Epidemic and Hypnosis -- Plague, Zombies and the Hypnotic Relation: Romero and After -- Bibliography -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe. Moving across narrative, theatre, political discourse, psychoanalysis and film theory, the book engages with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception,film spectatorship and the zombie genre. Plague's legacies lie in our dreams, our fears and in language itself. They reveal the fragility of the social bond; the fascination of diseased spectacle; and the literaland metaphorical power of pestilence. Legacies of Plague highlights the way in which structures of ritual surrounding the contagious and whatis tabo, while they may have been practically supplanted, are still operative under new guises in recent and present discourse and can be used to label and stigmatise in powerful and disturbing ways.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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