Catastrophe and catharsis : perspectives on disaster and redemption in German culture and beyond /: perspectives on disaster and redemption in German culture and beyond. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katharina Gerstenberger and Tanja Nusser.
• Editors: Gerstenberger, Katharina, 1961-; Nusser, Tanja
• Contents: Introduction / Katharina Gerstenberger and Tanja Nusser -- Tableaux of terror: the staging of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as cathartic spectacle / Christoph Weber -- The French burn Paris, 1871 / Janine Hartman -- Memory politics: the bombing of Hamburg and Dresden / Claudia Jerzak -- Observing the observation of nuclear disasters in Alexander Kluge / Torsten Pflugmacher -- Rereading Christa Wolf's Storfall following the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Narrating the untellable: Yoko Tawada and Haruki Murakami as transnational translators of catastrophe / Yasemin Dayioglu-Yucel -- Beautiful destructions: the filmic aesthetics of spectacular catastrophes / Tanja Nusser -- Constellations of primal fear in Josef Haslingers Phi Phi Island / Lars Koch -- Avalanche catastrophes and disaster traditions. Anthropological perspectives on coping strategies in Galtur, Tyrol / Jan Hinrichsen -- Defining catastrophes / Franz Mauelshagen.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.933582; Disasters in literature -- Congresses; Catastrophical, The, in literature -- Congresses; Disasters -- Social aspects -- Congresses; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Catastrophical, The, in literature; Civilization; Disasters in literature; Disasters -- Social aspects; Germany -- Civilization -- Congresses; Germany; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782046783
• Related ISBNs: 178204678X; 9781571139016; 157113901X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 4, 2015).
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