Catastrophe and Catharsis
Title | Catastrophe and Catharsis PDF eBook |
Author | Katharina Gerstenberger |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 157113901X |
Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human beings be rescued and affected areas rebuilt, but the reality of the catastrophe must also be transformed into narrative. The essays in this collection examine representations of disaster in literature, film, and mass media in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the Lisbon earthquake, the Paris Commune, the Hamburg and Dresden fire-bombings in the Second World War, nuclear disasters in Alexander Kluge's films, the filmic aesthetics of catastrophe, Yoko Tawada's lectures on the Fukushima disaster and Christa Wolf's novel St rfall in light of that same disaster, Joseph Haslinger and the tsunami of 2004, traditions regarding avalanche disaster in the Tyrol, and the problems and implications of defining disaster. Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Yasemin Dayioglu-Y cel, Janine Hartman, Jan Hinrichsen, Claudia Jerzak, Lars Koch, Franz Mauelshagen, Tanja Nusser, Torsten Pflugmacher, Christoph Weber. Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah. Tanja Nusser is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.
Katrina
Title | Katrina PDF eBook |
Author | Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art, American |
ISBN | 9780916537333 |
Catastrophe Or Cartharsis
Title | Catastrophe Or Cartharsis PDF eBook |
Author | Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1992-09-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9785852170132 |
Catastrophe or Catharsis? Lays bare the reasons why the Soviet economic reform has plunged into crisis. In precise, vivid prose, Menshikov describes the exhaustion of the ‘command system’ in the pre-perestroika era. His book exposes the bureaucratic irresponsibility which, for example, allowed industrial ministries to strip enterprises of their re-investment funds, ensuring that the simple maintenance of production would in time become impossible. Analysing Soviet economic policy during the perestroika years, Menshikov again paints a picture of adventurism and incompetence. We learn of ‘black holes’ in the state budget, and of how finance ministry officials concealed huge deficits by annexing the savings bank deposits of the population. Menshikov’s analysis of the perestroika period is built around a powerfully argued thesis: the Soviet state bureaucracy, he sets out to show, has increasingly fused with the ‘shadow economy’ to form a new mechanism of fraud, theft and economic disruption. Can total catastrophe be avoided, and can a process of purgation and recovery—that is catharsis—now ensue? Menshikov advances a detailed program for getting economic reform back on track while avoiding a further collapse of living standards. Here are specific proposals for curbing inflation, reducing budget deficits and ending the sway of the ‘shadow economy’. These tasks can still be accomplished, the author argues, without sacrificing the interests of the mass of the Soviet population.
Catastrophe Or Catharsis?
Title | Catastrophe Or Catharsis? PDF eBook |
Author | Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Perestroĭka |
ISBN | 9780860915713 |
Catastrophe or catharsis?
Title | Catastrophe or catharsis? PDF eBook |
Author | Станислав Меньшиков |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788521703150 |
The Poetics of Aristotle
Title | The Poetics of Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN |
Consuming Catastrophe
Title | Consuming Catastrophe PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Recuber |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2016-11-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439913706 |
Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the 2008 financial crisis. In Consuming Catastrophe, Timothy Recuber presents a unique and provocative look at how these four very different disasters took a similar path through public consciousness. He explores the myriad ways we engage with and negotiate our feelings about disasters and tragedies—from omnipresent media broadcasts to relief fund efforts and promises to “Never Forget.” Recuber explains how a specific and “real” kind of emotional connection to the victims becomes a crucial element in the creation, use, and consumption of mass mediation of disasters. He links this to the concept of “empathetic hedonism,” or the desire to understand or feel the suffering of others. The ineffability of disasters makes them a spectacular and emotional force in contemporary American culture. Consuming Catastrophe provides a lively analysis of the themes and meanings of tragedy and the emotions it engenders in the representation, mediation and consumption of disasters.