Fear and fantasy in a global world / / edited by Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Sandra Bettencourt.

• Superior document: Textxet, Volume 81
• TeilnehmendeR: Araújo, Susana,; Pinto, Marta Pacheco,; Bettencourt, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 81.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

At 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Susana Araújo , Marta Pacheco Pinto and Sandra Bettencourt -- Introduction / Susana Araújo , Marta Pacheco Pinto and Sandra Bettencourt -- The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization / Christopher Bollas -- Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets / James Rushing Daniel -- “Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”: From Zero to 2666, and Back / David Vichnar -- Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship / Edith Beltrán -- The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats / Martijn Boven -- Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction / Christin Grunert -- Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) / Gero Guttzeit -- Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s / Marija Sruk -- Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter / Alexandra Hills -- A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera / Harriet Hulme -- Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor Angels / Ana Filipa Prata -- The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence / Hande Gurses -- 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 / João Pedro da Costa -- Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey / Ortwin de Graef -- The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey / Brecht de Groote -- Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero / Margarita García Candeira -- War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel” / Daniela Di Pasquale -- Notes on Contributors / Susana Araújo , Marta Pacheco Pinto and Sandra Bettencourt -- Index / Susana Araújo , Marta Pacheco Pinto and Sandra Bettencourt.