Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film
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Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film

About this book

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

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: ‘But I ain’t dead’
  10. 1 Writing Plague: Defoe and Camus
  11. 2 The Politics of Plague Theatre: Artaud, Ccaronapek and Camus
  12. 3 Oedipus the Pharmakos and the Psychoanalytic Plague
  13. 4 Dreaming Plague and Plaguing Dreams: The Teachings of Psychoanalysis
  14. 5 Plague, Jews and Fascist Anti-Semites: ‘The Great Incurable Malady’
  15. 6 Screening Plague Images/Plaguing Screen Images:von Trier’s Epidemic and Hypnosis
  16. 7 Plague, Zombies and the Hypnotic Relation:Romero and After
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index