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Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film
This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre.
236 pages, Hardcover
First published April 15, 2009
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July 25, 2013
I'll admit I skimmed a good bit of this. Perhaps I was just not in the mood for an academic text. It did have some interesting bits, the last chapter was particularly good but I was so not interested in the 2 chapters discussing Freud and how his theories related to the idea of plague.
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