流行病和哥特式,然后和现在:背景中的声
1English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada julia.wright@dal.ca.
Medical humanities
|May 14, 2025
概括
尽管声称COVID-19疲劳,但文化作品揭示了对流行病的持续兴趣. 哥特式文学和电视使用间接引用疾病,反映历史趋势,并反映当代问题,如错误信息.
科学领域:
- 文化研究是文化研究.
- 文学分析 文学分析
- 媒体研究 媒体研究
背景情况:
- 公共话语表明对COVID-19的兴趣正在减弱,但文化产品表明对流行病和流行病主题的持续参与.
- 历史和当代文化材料往往通过间接引用而不是明确叙述来解决流行病.
研究的目的:
- 分析流行病的文化表现,特别是哥特式文学和流行病时代的电视.
- 探索当代媒体如何与疾病,孤立和错误信息的主题进行互动,并与历史表征进行平行.
主要方法:
- 对哥特式作品的文学分析,重点关注疾病和流行病的历史表现.
- 对大流行时代电视剧的分析,特别是检查描绘COVID-19和相关问题的叙事策略.
- 通过不同历史时期和媒体形式对疾病代表性的比较研究.
主要成果:
- 哥特式文学在历史上使用了简短的,间接的流行病参考,反映了危险的日常经验.
- 当代电视,以"采访吸血鬼" (2022-) 为例,采用类似的策略,间接引用"瘟疫"和错误信息.
- 这些表现与早期的哥特传统保持一致,并对当代问题提供评论,例如COVID-19错误信息.
结论:
- 对流行病的文化兴趣仍然存在,通常通过微妙或间接的叙事技巧来表达.
- 哥特式文学和电视传统为代表疾病和社会焦虑提供了框架,包括COVID-19时代的疾病和社会焦虑.
- 媒体间接描述大流行病的目的是反映和评论当代疾病和错误信息的经验.
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