Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Tableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 as Cathartic Spectacle
- 2 The French Burn Paris, 1871
- 3 Memory Politics: The Bombing of Hamburg and Dresden
- 4 Observing the Observation of Nuclear Disasters in Alexander Kluge
- 5 Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall following the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe
- 6 Narrating the Untellable: Yoko Tawada and Haruki Murakami as Transnational Translators of Catastrophe
- 7 Beautiful Destructions: The Filmic Aesthetics of Spectacular Catastrophes
- 8 Constellations of Primal Fear in Josef Haslinger's Phi Phi Island
- 9 Avalanche Catastrophes and Disaster Traditions: Anthropological Perspectives on Coping Strategies in Galtür, Tyrol
- 10 Defining Catastrophes
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Tableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 as Cathartic Spectacle
- 2 The French Burn Paris, 1871
- 3 Memory Politics: The Bombing of Hamburg and Dresden
- 4 Observing the Observation of Nuclear Disasters in Alexander Kluge
- 5 Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall following the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe
- 6 Narrating the Untellable: Yoko Tawada and Haruki Murakami as Transnational Translators of Catastrophe
- 7 Beautiful Destructions: The Filmic Aesthetics of Spectacular Catastrophes
- 8 Constellations of Primal Fear in Josef Haslinger's Phi Phi Island
- 9 Avalanche Catastrophes and Disaster Traditions: Anthropological Perspectives on Coping Strategies in Galtür, Tyrol
- 10 Defining Catastrophes
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Catastrophe and CatharsisPerspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015