Pandemic Protagonists

Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

308 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.

• Reihe: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• ISBN: 9783837666168
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2023
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: transcript
• Herausgegeben von: Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr, Elisabeth Hobisch