Coming to Terms with a Crisis
eBook - PDF

Coming to Terms with a Crisis

Cultural Engagements with COVID-19

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Coming to Terms with a Crisis

Cultural Engagements with COVID-19

About this book

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world as a (purportedly) novel situation with which people struggled to come to terms. The contributions to this volume show how various actors reacted to this pandemic through specific forms of representation and storytelling in popular culture, public discourse, and science communication. They demonstrate how these representations both leverage new media and resort to familiar scripts and characters to make sense of the situation. Thus, they uncover the transformative potential of narratives about epi-/pandemics across different domains and their contribution to the production of knowledge as well as the recalibration of norms and values.

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Yes, you can access Coming to Terms with a Crisis by Martin Butler,Sina Farzin,Michael Fuchs,Fabian Hempel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Art Theory & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Coming to Terms with a Crisis
  5. Pandemics Between Material Causes and FigurativeIdeological Interpretations
  6. Depicting SARS‐CoV‑2
  7. Viral Commemoration
  8. Corona Fictions Anthologies
  9. Fiction as a Tool to Imagine the Pandemic
  10. A Year of “Very Historic Breakthroughs”?
  11. Contagious Economic Failure?
  12. “Vacuna o muerte”
  13. Donald Trump’s Viral Narratives and Shifting Pandemic Communication
  14. Confronting and Assuaging Pandemic Anxieties Through Horror Media in Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red
  15. Literary Reflections on the Institution of Science and COVID‑19
  16. A World After the Pandemic
  17. About the Contributors