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The Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film
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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.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
May 15th 2009
by Palgrave Macmillan
(first published April 15th 2009)
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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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