Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions In Pandemic And Corona Fictions

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Acknowledgements
Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction
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Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution
Pandemic Protagonists Going Viral on Netflix – an Introduction
Dystopian Series Genres and Viral Aesthetics
Ambiguity and Seriality of Blood
The Scientist as Pandemic Protagonist
Of Noble Goals and a Black Soul: (Un-)Heroic Characterisations of the Virus Expert
In Front of and Behind the Border: The Protagonist’s Spatial-Semantic Locations
Of Monsters and Angels: Interactions with the Mighty and the Innocent
Conclusion
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers
Intro: Reading against the Plague
Genre, Class and Gender Trouble: Readers and Readings in Corona Diarism
Pandemic Palimpsests: Contextualizing Corona-Lit
Blurring Boundaries: Reader Protagonists and the Configuration of a Transgeneric Genre
Crossed (Mis-)Readings: Sylvie Germain’s Brèves de solitude
Hallucinating Rieux: Erik Eising’s Tagebuch der sanften Quarantäne
Camus “at first degree”? Alexandre Najjar’s La Couronne du diable
Doctors as Readers: Lawrence Wright, Wim Daniëls & Co.
Reading Chekhov in Corona Times: Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends
Procopius, Poetry and Politics: Vincent Message’s Les Années sans soleil
Tentative Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Corona Fictions
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions
Introduction
Gender, Social Norms and Hysteria
Agency and Anxiety
Agency by Strictly Following the Rules
Agency by an Outburst of Violence
Agency by Transferring Emotions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
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La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado
La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado
La madre del futbolista como una novela de la crisis económica
La modalidad pandémica en La madre del futbolista
La mujer en el mercado capitalista como protagonista pandémica
Bibliografía
Bibliografía primaria
Bibliografía secundaria
Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions
Introduction
The (Pandemic) Waves
Dalloway-esque Superspreader
Conclusion
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
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‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19
Introducción
Balada triste para armónica, de Sebastián Moreno: prisioneros en casa
Machu Picchu, de Jerónimo López Mozo: residencias, incomunicación y muerte
Justo en la noche, de Raúl Hernández Garrido: entre memoria y olvido
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
Bibliografía primaria
Bibliografía secundaria
Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010)
Introduction: Immunity and Community
Heroic Immunity? From ‘Privilege’ to Resistance
Facing Dilemmas through Resistance
Self-blindness as a Counter-Model of Immunity
How to Survive Together? (Collective Resilience in Blindness)
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
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The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature
Introduction
Historical Responses to the Arrival of Cholera
Literary Responses to Cholera: Determinism, Group Unison and Pedagogy
Cholera, Drinking and Carnival
Cholera, Crowds and Debauchery
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel
Introduction
Un roman écologiste : les humains, spectateurs de l’effondrement
Réseaux sociaux et désagrégation du tissu humain
L’effondrement pour décor
Un roman animalier : animaux humains et non humains
Les animaux, êtres sentients
Les animaux humains et leur univers mental
Un roman animaliste : les animaux comme personnes
Un pamphlet animaliste
Nuisibles, familiers ou sauvages
Un roman antispéciste : esquisse écoféministe
La fin de l’androcène
Autodétermination féminine
Le devenir lesbien
Une écosophie : penser le monde présent
Multiplication vs prolifération
Recomposition du paysage
Peupler le monde d’après
Conclusion
Bibliographie
Œuvre analysée
Ouvrages cités
The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity
Introduction
Animals Forewarning Disaster
Animals Worsening and Causing Outbreaks
Animals Conferring Immunity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Works Analyzed
Works Cited
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Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Introduction
The Political Challenge of Portraying Germs
Making the Invisible Enemy Visible
Germs as Social Protagonists
The Making of Epidemiological Enemies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics
An All-Too-Human-Virus
Another Virus
Another “Typhoid Mary”
Coda
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana
Strumenti teorici: sul concetto di Agency
La suddivisione temporale delle narrazioni: un’analisi comparata
Autobiografia e distopia
Dall’autobiografia al recupero degli ‘altri’
Metafore di un’agency collettiva
Conclusioni
Bibliografia
Corpus analizzato
Opere citate
Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions
Introduction
Encoding Hope
Hope: The Protagonist’s Pursuit of Goals and Agency
From Fear to Hope
Corona Fictions Agents and Comedy: Encoding Hope and the Power of Agency
Pandemic Protagonists and Agency
Corona Fictions Comedies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Corpus Analyzed
Works Cited
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