By Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel
Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. they're disruptions of order. In numerous methods and to various levels, they modify and subvert what we regard as common. they could happen on a private point within the kind of nerve-racking or annoying events, on a social point within the kind of risky political, monetary or non secular occasions, or on a world point within the kind of environmental states of emergency. the most assumption during this publication is that, unlike the directness of any given disaster and its noticeable actual, in your price range and mental outcomes our knowing of catastrophes and crises is formed via our cultural mind's eye. irrespective of within which eruptive and traumatizing shape we come upon them, our collective repertoire of symbolic kinds, old sensibilities, modes of illustration, and styles of mind's eye ensure how we establish, study and care for catastrophes and crises.This e-book provides a chain of articles investigating how we tackle and interpret catastrophes and crises in movie, literature, artwork and concept, starting from Voltaire´s eighteenth-century Europe, haunted via revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the grim, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.
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Accordingly, the federal nature of the “fuck-up” tends to disappear. To put it polemically, the only image of collective human life available within the theoretical framework of the trauma is the total count of individual cases of PTSD. As for the media-borne character of disaster, on the other hand, the trauma approach invites us to understand a work of disaster fiction as a representation of a sense experience – an impossible, distorted and belated representation of an unspeakable X, undeniably, but still a representation of a prior event.
Or maybe, one should say, as the word is Greek, they have been a poetic concern. Derived from the verb katastréphein, the term consists of two elements, the prefix and preposition kata- and the suffix -strophe. ’ In his classic reference book, Sachwörterbuch der Literatur, Gero von Wilpert provides the following definition of catastrophe. [KATASTROPHE…] in der Dramaturgie bes. der Tragödie (Aristoteles, Poetik, 10) entscheidender Wendepunkt meist am Abschluß der Handlung, bringt die mit der Peripetie eingeleitete Lösung des Konflikts und bestimmt das Schicksal des Helden zum Schlimmen (Untergang in der Tragödie) oder zum Guten (humorvolle Lösung der Verwicklung in der Komödie).
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