Preexisting conditions : recounting the plague
"Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mortality and vulnerability is not just an individual concern. The narratives examined in this book both confirm the desire to avoid this recognition as well as the different ways it asserts itself nev...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New York :
Zone Books
2022.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Preexisting conditions, recounting the plague, Samuel Weber, 2022, New York, Zone Books, 1 vol. (214 p.-[1] p. de pl.), 978-1-942130-76-5 |
Table des matières:
- Preface: The end of the world as we knew it
- The local and the general
- Monotheological antecedents : life against the living (Genesis, Exodus)
- Polytheistic antecedents : the plague as stasis (Thucydides)
- Storytelling as friction (Boccaccio, The decameron)
- The Lutheran response : the neighbor (Luther, "Should a Christian flee the plague?")
- "Out of all measures" (Defoe, A journal of the plague year)
- Tragedy as Trauerspiel (Kleist, The tragedy of Robert Guiscard, Duke of the Normans)
- Preexisting conditions (Artaud, "The theater and the plague")
- Confinement (Camus, The plague)
- Living with plagues (Hölderlin, "Remarks on Sophocles's Oedipus")