03074nam 22006133 450 991098598420332120250902183933.09783839470602383947060910.1515/9783839470602(CKB)37776540900041(MiAaPQ)EBC31953927(Au-PeEL)EBL31953927(DE-B1597)679955(DE-B1597)9783839470602(EXLCZ)993777654090004120250313d2025 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierComing to Terms with a Crisis Cultural Engagements with COVID-191st ed.Bielefeld :transcript Verlag,2025.©2025.1 online resource (307 pages)Edition Kulturwissenschaft ;2949783837670608 3837670600 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Coming to Terms with a Crisis --Pandemics Between Material Causes and Figurative/Ideological Interpretations --Depicting SARS-CoV-2 --Viral Commemoration --Corona Fictions Anthologies --Fiction as a Tool to Imagine the Pandemic --A Year of “Very Historic Breakthroughs”? --Contagious Economic Failure? --“Vacuna o muerte” --Donald Trump’s Viral Narratives and Shifting Pandemic Communication --Confronting and Assuaging Pandemic Anxieties Through Horror Media in Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red --Literary Reflections on the Institution of Science and COVID-19 --A World After the Pandemic --About the ContributorsThe 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.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CulturebisacshCOVID-19.Cultural Studies.Culture.Literary Studies.Media.Pandemic.Society.Sociology of Culture.Storytelling.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.Butler Martin142053Farzin Sina626685Fuchs Michael500160Hempel Fabian1791403MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910985984203321Coming to Terms with a Crisis4328773UNINA