The cultural life of catastrophes and crises / edited by Carsten Meiner and Kristin Veel.

"Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Meiner, Carsten (Editor), Veel, Kristin (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Series:	Concepts for the study of culture ; 3.
Subjects:	Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures. Catastrophical, The, in literature. Catastrophical, The, in art. Catastrophical, The, in art Catastrophical, The, in literature Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures