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Writing Plague

Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 de

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Palgrave Macmillan


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The New Middle Ages

Paru le : 2022-04-22

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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human “software” (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and fantasies and displace them onto the threatening “other,” Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.
Pages
265 pages
Collection
The New Middle Ages
Parution
2022-04-22
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030948498
EAN PDF
9783030948504
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
26
Taille du fichier
6216 Ko
Prix
105,49 €
EAN EPUB
9783030948504
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
26
Taille du fichier
59607 Ko
Prix
105,49 €

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