Pandemic Protagonists Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

• Tác giả: Elisabeth Hobisch, Julia Obermayr, Yvonne Völkl
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3837666168
• ISBN-13: 978-3839466162
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (308 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 345161
• Chủ đề: 1. Film theory & criticism; 2. Literary studies: general; 3. Media studies

Tóm tắt

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.