04118nam 2200613 450 99652496980331620230515190428.03-8394-6616-410.1515/9783839466162(CKB)5680000000305747(NjHacI)995680000000305747(DE-B1597)642384(DE-B1597)9783839466162(MiAaPQ)EBC7234041(Au-PeEL)EBL7234041(OCoLC)1378176486(EXLCZ)99568000000030574720230515d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPandemic protagonists viral (re)actions in pandemic and Corona fictions /Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr, Elisabeth Hobisch, editors1st ed.Bielefeld :transcript Verlag,[2023]©20231 online resource (308 pages) illustrationsCulture & theory3-8376-6616-6 Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction -- Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution -- Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers -- Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions -- La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado -- Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions -- ‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19 -- Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010) -- The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature -- ‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel -- The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity -- Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema -- Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics -- Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana -- Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions -- AuthorsDuring 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.Culture & theory.Epidemics in motion picturesCovid-19.Cultural Studies.Culture.Film.Literary Studies.Literature.Media.Medicine.Pandemic.Epidemics in motion pictures.791.4361Völkl YvonneObermayr JuliaHobisch ElisabethNjHacINjHaclBOOK996524969803316Pandemic Protagonists3090064UNISA