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Herrmann, Elisabeth (2022) In Zeiten der Pandemie : Was kann Literatur leisten und was kann sie nicht leisten? In: Karlsson Hammarfelt, Linda and Platen, Edgar and Platen, Petra, (eds.) Krankheit und Gesundheit. Zur Darstellung von Zeitgeschichte in deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur. Perspektiven. Nordische Studien zur deutschsprachigen Literatur und Kultur, XII (22). Munich: Iudicium, pp. 184-202. ISBN 9783862056002 (In Press)
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Abstract
This book chapter, engaging with the topic of disease and health, examines how current German-language literature has reacted to and processed the COVID-19 pandemic, both thematically and affectively in fictional ways. Rather than taking a comprehensive inventory of the literature produced in the context of the current pandemic, this study develops a literary-historical framework of the topos of epidemics and plagues, to which a selection of most recent textual examples is related. The study identifies some specific characteristics of the new ‘COVID literature’ while more generally asking what a literary engagement with the current as well as previous pandemics can teach us about literature and its specific relationship to the present.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies | ||||
| Series Name: | Perspektiven. Nordische Studien zur deutschsprachigen Literatur und Kultur | ||||
| Publisher: | Iudicium | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Munich | ||||
| ISBN: | 9783862056002 | ||||
| ISSN: | 2363-6939 | ||||
| Book Title: | Krankheit und Gesundheit. Zur Darstellung von Zeitgeschichte in deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur | ||||
| Editor: | Karlsson Hammarfelt, Linda and Platen, Edgar and Platen, Petra | ||||
| Official Date: | October 2022 | ||||
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| Volume: | XII | ||||
| Number: | 22 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 184-202 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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