Catastrophe and Catharsis

Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond
Herausgeber: Gerstenberger, Katharina; Nusser, Tanja

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 234mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781571139016
• ISBN-10: 157113901X
• Artikelnr.: 42909155

Autorenporträt

Katharina Gerstenberger, Tanja Nusser

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Tableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of
1755 as Cathartic Spectacle The French Burn Paris, 1871 Memory Politics:
The Bombing of Hamburg and Dresden Observing the Observation of Nuclear
Disasters in Alexander Kluge Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall following
the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe Narrating the Untellable: Yoko Tawada and
Haruki Murakami as Transnational Translators of Catastrophe Beautiful
Destructions: The Filmic Aesthetics of Spectacular Catastrophes
Constellations of Primal Fear in Josef Haslingers Phi Phi Island Avalanche
Catastrophes and Disaster Traditions: Anthropological Perspectives on
Coping Strategies in Galtür, Tyrol Defining Catastrophes Bibliography Notes
on the Contributors Index