1st Edition
Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk
Edited By Paul Crosthwaite
Copyright 2011
236 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises. But what is the role of literary and cultural criticism in conceptualizing... Read more
Introduction Paul Crosthwaite I. Critical Thought/Critical Times 1. No Apocalypse, Not Yet: Literary Criticism in an Age of Global Risk Molly Wallace 2. Beyond the Ghost Dance: Democracy and Emergency Nick Mansfield 3. The Incredible Shrinking Human Charlie Gere 4. The Risks of Sustainability Karen Pinkus II. Critical Perspectives on Crisis Narratives 5. The Rise of the Edge: Catastrophic Seascape and the Ecological Uncanny in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Rebecca Giggs 6. Narrating the Coming Pandemic: Avian Influenza, Anticipatory Anxiety, and Neurotic Citizenship Penelope Ironstone Catterall 7. Grey Goo and You: The Ecophagy of Global Capital Robin Stoate 8. Risk and Morality in Ian McEwan's Saturday Lidia De Michelis 9. After Globalization: Narratives of Post-American Hegemony Imre Szeman 10. "The Corporation of Terror": Financial Fictions/Fictions of Finance Nicky Marsh 11. Casino Royale, Financial Aesthetics, and National Narrative Form Alissa G. Karl 12. Phantasmagoric Finance: Risk and the Supernatural in Contemporary Finance Culture Paul Crosthwaite 13. Global Capitalism and a Dystopian South Africa: Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes Andries Visagie
Biography
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.
"An excellent collection of highly readable work." –Paul Wake, Modern Language Review
