Pandemics And Epidemics In Cultural Representation

Author : Sathyaraj Venkatesan,Antara Chatterjee,A. David Lewis,Brian Callender
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811912962

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Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation by Sathyaraj Venkatesan,Antara Chatterjee,A. David Lewis,Brian Callender Pdf

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics in different contexts, periods, languages, media, and genres. Interdisciplinary in nature and drawing on perspectives from medicine, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy of medicine, and cultural theory, the book investigates and emphasizes the urgent need to reflect on past catastrophes caused by such outbreaks. By delving into cultural history, it re-examines how societies and communities have responded in the past to species-threatening epidemics/pandemics. Sure to be of interest to lay readers as well as students and researchers, this work situates epidemics and pandemics outbreaks within the contexts of culture and narrative, and their complex and layered representation, commenting on intersections of contagion, culture, and community. It offers a cross-cultural, global, and comparative analysis of the trajectories, histories and responses to various epidemics/pandemics that impacted people worldwide.

Author : Marsha Morton,Ann-Marie Akehurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1032280255

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Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750 by Marsha Morton,Ann-Marie Akehurst Pdf

"Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media. Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations. This anthology offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities"--

Author : Nishi Pulugurtha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000810806

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Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence by Nishi Pulugurtha Pdf

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world. This book critically engages with stories and narratives that have dealt with pandemics or epidemics in the past and in contemporary times to see how these texts present human life coming to terms with upheaval, fear and uncertainty. Set in various places and times, the literature examined in this book explores the themes of human suffering and resilience, inequality, corruption, the ruin of civilizations and the rituals of grief and remembrance. The chapters in this volume cover a wide spatio-temporal trajectory analysing the writings of Fakir Mohan Senapati and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Jack London, Albert Camus, Margaret Atwood, Sarat Chand, Pandita Ramabai and Christina Sweeney-Baird, among others. It gives readers a glimpse into both grounded and fantastical realities where disease and death clash with human psychology and where philosophy, politics and social values are critiqued and problematized. This book will be of interest to students of English literature, social science, gender studies, cultural studies, psychology, society, politics and philosophy. General readers too will find this exciting as it covers authors from across the world.

Author : Francisco Yus
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267214

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Humour and Relevance by Francisco Yus Pdf

This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how addressees obtain humorous effects. Although the inferences at work in the processing of normal, non-humorous discourses are the same as those employed in the interpretation of humour, in the latter case these strategies (and also the accessibility of contextual information) are predicted and manipulated by the speaker (or writer) for the sake of generating humorous effects. The book covers aspects of research on humour such as the incongruity-resolution pattern, jokes and stand-up comedy performances. It also offers an explanation of why ironies are sometimes labelled as humorous, and proposes a model for the translation of humorous discourses, an analysis of humour in multimodal discourses such as cartoons and advertisements, and a brief exploration of possible tendencies in relevance-theoretic research on conversational humour.

Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521004373

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Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman Pdf

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

Author : Yvonne Völkl,Julia Obermayr,Elisabeth Hobisch
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839466162

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Pandemic Protagonists by Yvonne Völkl,Julia Obermayr,Elisabeth Hobisch Pdf

During 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.

Author : Francisco Yus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031319020

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Pragmatics of Internet Humour by Francisco Yus Pdf

This book provides a first thorough analysis of internet humour from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, covering a wide range of discourses that are pervasive online and focusing especially on messaging interactions, social networking sites and memes. Its chapters describe the inferential strategies implemented to turn online coded discourses into meaningful interpretations, which in turn can be devised and manipulated for the sake of humour. Furthermore, and apart from the typical object of pragmatic research (humorous discourses), the book emphasises the importance of the interfaces’ design and of the qualities of the users engaged in humorous interactions (called contextual constraints), additionally highlighting the parallel significance of the various effects, shaped as feelings and emotions, that stem from humorous communication on the internet. In sum, the book delivers a rich and detailed account of humorous internet discourses through dissecting their affordances as a medium, tracking the users’ intentions, and predicting the audiences’ interpretive strategies, with the goal of helping the reader obtain a better understanding of internet humour and its role in today’s online interactions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789354351693

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Science Fiction in India by Anonim Pdf

Nominated, 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene. Dalit speculative fiction writer and editor Mimi Mondal is the first SF writer from India to have been nominated for the prestigious Hugo award. In fact, Indian SF addresses themes such as global climate change. Debates around G.C.C are not just limited to science fiction but also permeate in critical discussions on SF. This volume seeks to examine the different ways by which Indian SF narratives construct possible national futures. For this looking forward necessarily germinates from the current positional concerns of the nation. While some work has been done on Indian SF, there is still a perceptible lack of an academic rigor invested into the genre; primarily, perhaps, because of not only its relative unpopularity in India, but also its employment of futuristic sights. Towards the same, among other things, it proposes to study the growth and evolution of science fiction in India as a literary genre which accommodates the duality of the national consciousness as it simultaneously gazes ahead towards the future and glances back at the past. In other words, the book will explore how the tensions generated by the seemingly conflicting forces of tradition and modernity within the Indian historical landscape are realized through characteristic tropes of SF storytelling. It also intends to look at the interplay between the spatio-temporal coordinates of the nation and the SF narratives produced within to see, firstly, how one bears upon the other and, secondly, how processes of governance find relational structures with such narratives. Through these, the volume wishes to interrogate how postcolonial futures promise to articulate a more representative and nuanced picture of a contemporary reality that is rooted in a distinct cultural and colonial past.

Author : Rowena Malpas
Publisher : Richards Education
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Epidemics and Pandemics Throughout History: Understanding Disease Outbreaks by Rowena Malpas Pdf

Dive into the comprehensive history of humanity's battle with infectious diseases in 'Epidemics and Pandemics Throughout History: Understanding Disease Outbreaks.' This meticulously researched book explores the profound impacts of various outbreaks from the Plague of Athens to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter delves into the origins, spread, societal impact, and the lessons learned from these significant health crises. Through detailed accounts of historical events and figures, this book highlights the resilience and adaptability of societies in the face of deadly pathogens. Essential reading for history enthusiasts, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in the intricate dance between human societies and the microbial world, this book provides a deep understanding of how past experiences shape our responses to current and future health challenges.

Author : Paula A. Treichler
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0822323184

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How to Have Theory in an Epidemic by Paula A. Treichler Pdf

A collection of essays on the AIDS epidemic, by a leading feminist cultural theorist of science

Author : Lester D. Friedman,Therese Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000622812

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Routledge Handbook of Health and Media by Lester D. Friedman,Therese Jones Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies. A unique and significant volume in an expanding pedagogical field, this diverse collection of international, original, and interdisciplinary essays goes beyond issues of representation to engage in scholarly conversations about the web of networks that inextricably bind media and health to each other. Divided into sections on film, television, animation, photography, comics, advertising, social media, and print journalism, each chapter begins with a concrete text or texts, using it to raise more general and more theoretical issues about the medium in question. As such, this Handbook defines, expands, and illuminates the role that the humanities and arts play in the education and practice of healthcare professionals and in our understanding of health, illness, and disability. The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media is an invaluable reference for academics, students and health professionals engaged with cultural issues in media and medicine, popular representations of disease and disability, and the patient/professional health care encounter.

Author : Jo N. Hays
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851096633

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Epidemics and Pandemics by Jo N. Hays Pdf

Balancing current and historical issues, this volume of essays covers the most significant worldwide epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS. Great pandemics have resulted in significant death tolls and major social disruption. Other "virgin soil" epidemics have struck down large percentages of populations that had no previous contact with newly introduced microbes. Written by a specialist in the history of science and medicine, the essays in this volume discuss pandemics and epidemics affecting Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, covering diseases in ancient times to the present. Each entry combines biological and social information to form a picture of the significance of epidemics that have shaped world history. The essays cover the areas of major pandemics, virgin soil epidemics, disruptive shocks, and epidemics of symbolic interest. Included are facts about what an epidemic was, where and when it occurred, how contemporaries reacted, and the unresolved historical issues remaining. This fascinating material is written at a level suitable for scholars and the general public.

Author : Joanna Sokolowska,Peter Ayton,Eduard Brandstätter
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889715022

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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Psychological Reactions to the Pandemic by Joanna Sokolowska,Peter Ayton,Eduard Brandstätter Pdf

Author : Marsha Morton,Ann-Marie Akehurst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000904147

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Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750 by Marsha Morton,Ann-Marie Akehurst Pdf

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media. Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations. This volume offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities.

Author : J. Fisher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137054388

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Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War by J. Fisher Pdf

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private perceptions of time, mass media, urban spaces, emotion, and the increasingly uncertain status of the future.