Literature in times of crisis / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in literature.

Apocalypse in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 325 pages, 1 unnumbered page).

Other Title:

Critical Insights

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press/Grey House Publishing, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Almost since its inception, literature has emphasized and explored crises of various sorts, including political upheavals, social turmoil, destructive warfare, familial and personal conflicts, and devastating external dangers, especially those involving disease, the environment, the economy, and natural disasters. This book explores a wide range of kinds of crises and the ways they have been written about in literature of various genres and time periods. It also emphasizes the artistry involved in the various works it examines." -- Publisher description.

Contents:

About this volume

Why study premodern pandemic experience?

Critical contexts:

"Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she": inheritance, reproduction, and plague in Romeo and Juliet

Commentary on plague and disease in the early and later modern periods

Greek tragedy, black swans, and the Coronavirus: the consolation of theatre

Learning in wartime: Samuel Johnson and spiritual transcendence in The vanity of human wishes

Critical readings:

Key ancient crises: construction of plot and the story of the Trojan War in the Iliad

Crises in Sophocles's Antigone

Crisis and conspiracy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Charles Brockden Brown's "The man at home": crisis, isolation, and narrative

Apocalypse and postapocalypse in nineteenth-century literature

Crises in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath, especially Grampa's death

Apocalypse and postapocalypse in fiction and film, 1945-1970

The crisis of the archives: Susan Howe's "Articulation of sound forms in time"

Crises in Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad: the dramatic adaptation

The film version of Cormac McCarthy's The road: a survey of reviews

Crisis and crises in Homer's Iliad and Pat Barker's The silence of the girls

Resources:

Additional works on literature in times of crisis

Bibliography

About the editor

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642657555

1642657557

OCLC:

1241689837