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Zusatztext "An excellent collection of highly readable work." -Paul Wake! Modern Language Review Informationen zum Autor Paul Crossthwaite is Lecturer in English Literature and Member of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory! School of English! Communication! and Philosophy! Cardiff University. Zusammenfassung This landmark collection of essays demonstrates the capacity of literary and cultural criticism, working in dialogue with contemporary narrative texts, to provide penetrating insights into a public sphere defined by a succession of overlapping global crises, ranging from finance and economics to the environment, geopolitics, terrorism, and public health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I. Critical Thought/Critical Times 1. Will the Apocalypse Have Been Now? Literary Criticism in an Age of Global Risk. Molly Wallace 2. The Future of the Future. Nick Mansfield 3. The Incredible Shrinking Human. Charlie Gere 4. The Risks of Sustainability. Karen Pinkus Part II. Critical Perspectives on Crisis Narratives 5. Narrating the Coming Pandemic: Pandemic Influenza, Anticipatory Anxiety, and Neurotic Citizenship. Penelope Ironstone-Catterall 6. Global Capitalism and a Dystopian South Africa: Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes. Andries Visagie 7. Gray Goo and You: The Ecophagy of Global Capital. Robin Stoate 8. Risk and Morality in Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Lidia De Michelis 9. The Corporation of Terror: Risk and the Fictions of the "Financial War". Nicky Marsh 10. Waiting for Crisis: Casino Royale, Financial Aesthetics, and National Narrative Form. Alissa G. Karl 11. Phantasmagoric Finance: Crisis and the Supernatural in Contemporary Finance Culture. Paul Crosthwaite 12. The Green Afterword: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Ecological Uncanny. Rebecca Giggs ...
