| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Critical Thought/Critical Times; 1 Will the Apocalypse Have Been Now?: Literary Criticism in an Age of Global Risk; 2 The Future of the Future; 3 The Incredible Shrinking Human; 4 The Risks of Sustainability; Part II Critical Perspectives on Crisis Narratives; 5 Narrating the Coming Pandemic: Pandemic Infl uenza, Anticipatory Anxiety, and Neurotic Citizenship; 6 Global Capitalism and a Dystopian South Africa: Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes |
| Summary |
This landmark collection of essays demonstrates the capacity of literary and cultural criticism, working in dialogue with contemporary narrative texts, to provide penetrating insights into a public sphere defined by a succession of overlapping global crises, ranging from finance and economics to the environment, geopolitics, terrorism, and public health |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Crises in literature
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Crises in literature
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
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Psychic trauma in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203831021 |
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0203831020 |
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