Criticism, crisis, and contemporary narrative textual horizons in an age of global risk / [Texte imprimé] :
edited by Paul Crosthwaite
- New York ; London : Routlege, 2011
- 1 vol. (VI-226 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 4 .
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature (Routledge, New York) .
Pt. 1. Critical thought/critical times -- Will the apocalypse have been now? : Literary criticism in an age of global risk / Molly Wallace -- The future of the future / Nick Mansfield -- The incredible shrinking human / Charlie Gere -- The risks of sustainability / Karen Pinkus -- Pt. 2. Critical perspectives on crisis narratives -- Narrating the coming pandemic : pandemic influenza, anticipatory anxiety, and neurotic citizenship / Penelope Ironstone-Catterall -- Global capitalism and a dystopian South Africa : Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes / Andries Visagie -- Gray goo and you : the ecophagy of gobal capital / Robin Stoate -- Risk and morality in Ian McEwan's Saturday / Lidia De Michelis -- The corporation of terror : risk and the fictions of the "financial war" / Nicky Marsh -- Waiting for crisis : Casino Royale, financial aesthetics, and national narrative form / Alissa G. Karl -- Phantasmagoric finance : crisis and the supernatural in contemporary finance culture / Paul Crosthwaite -- The green afterword : Cormac McCarthy's The road and the ecological uncanny / Rebecca Giggs
Notes bibliogr.
978-0-415-87949-1
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Crisis in literature Psychic trauma in literature