Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film

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ISBN: 0230219349
ISBN 13: 9780230219342
Autor: Cooke, J
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 226 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Imaginative contribution to a range of areas of study (literature and health/medicine; medical humanities; cultural theory of the body; film studies) First study to examine the twentieth-century legacies of ‚plague‘ in writing and culture Discusses wide range of cultural texts Camus and Defoe to Freud and the films of Lars von Trier and George A. Romero Provides an important new reading of psychoanalysis and the Oedipus complex Contributes to understanding of anti-Semitism and other mechanisms of discrimination

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Beschreibung

This book 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, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre.

Autorenporträt

JENNIFER COOKE is Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

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