The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises

Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel (Herausgeber)

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VIII, 322 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover & eBook

2012
De Gruyter
978-3-11-028296-2 (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.

Zusatzinfo	Includes a print version and an ebook
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Schlagworte	ART • catastrophes • Catastrophes; Crises; Trauma; Film; Art; Literature • Crises • Film • Literature • Trauma
ISBN-10	3-11-028296-8 / 3110282968
ISBN-13	978-3-11-028296-2 / 9783110282962
Zustand	Neuware