In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crises, to which despair is an understandable response. Yet hope is continually sought and proclaimed. By examining tropes of ruin and regeneration in a wide selection of narratives including memoir, graphic narratives, fiction, film, art, radio plays, culture, rhetoric, and discourse, the book uncovers resonances between them. The anthology moves from the personal to the collective, addressing individual matters of the body and the mind, societal visions of utopia and dystopia, and, finally, hope and despair for the earth itself in representations of apocalypse and the Anthropocene. This structure, alongside the interdisciplinary nature of the project, maps dynamic international perspectives in which hope and despair flow across and through personal, social, and earthly concerns.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
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Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Individual Matters: Body and Mind
- Part II Societal Matters: Utopian and Dystopian Impulses
- Part III Earthly Matters: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene
- Index
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