{"product_id":"fear-and-fantasy-in-a-global-world-9789004306035","title":"Fear and Fantasy in a Global World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious.  Contributors: Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Sandra Bettencourt Introduction  Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties  Christopher Bollas The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization  James Rushing Daniel Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets  David Vichnar “Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”: From Zero to 2666, and Back  Edith Beltrán Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship  Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity Formation  Martijn Boven The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats  Christin Grunert Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction  Gero Guttzeit Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)  Marija Sruk Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s  Alexandra Hills Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter  Part 3: Boundaries and Performance: Language, Memory and Fantasy  Harriet Hulme A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera  Ana Filipa Prata Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor Angels  Hande Gurses The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence  João Pedro da Costa The Digital Meta-Dissemination of Fear in Music Videos. A Transdisciplinary Textual Analysis of Two Case Studies: Esben and the Witch’s Marching Song and M.I.A.’s Born Free\t  Part 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the Other  Ortwin de Graef Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey  Brecht de Groote The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey  Margarita García Candeira Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero\t  Daniela Di Pasquale War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel”\t  Notes on Contributors\t  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210677772631,"sku":"9789004306035","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fear-and-fantasy-in-a-global-world-9789004306035","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}