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Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster - Couverture souple

Stock, Angela; Stott, Cornelia

 
9783631556733: Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 363155673X ISBN 13 : 9783631556733
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2007

Synopsis

Finding words and images with which to describe and come to terms with a disaster is a psychological necessity, but it also inevitably manifests socio-cultural habits of thought and political interests. Language shapes, distorts and appropriates an occurrence that is not just a shocking and all too real destruction of life, property and the environment, but also a social construct. The ‘unrepresentability' of the experience of a disaster and the textuality of the represented event – and thus also the contradictions, ruptures and silences inevitably created by the tensions between ‘reality' and ‘representation' – are the focus of the essays collected in this volume. Thirteen contributions by internationally active researchers in the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, sociology and philosophy provide interdisciplinary perspectives on the ways in which we write and think about the unimaginable.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Editors : Angela Stock teaches at the English Department of the University of Bielefeld (Germany). Cornelia Stott is a freelance language teacher and translator in St. Albans (England).

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
363155673X
ISBN 13 
9783631556733
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
226
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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