Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

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Acknowledgements
Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction
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Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution
	Pandemic Protagonists Going Viral on Netflix – an Introduction
	Dystopian Series Genres and Viral Aesthetics
	Ambiguity and Seriality of Blood
	The Scientist as Pandemic Protagonist
		Of Noble Goals and a Black Soul: (Un-)Heroic Characterisations of the Virus Expert
		In Front of and Behind the Border: The Protagonist’s Spatial-Semantic Locations
		Of Monsters and Angels: Interactions with the Mighty and the Innocent
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers
	Intro: Reading against the Plague
	Genre, Class and Gender Trouble: Readers and Readings in Corona Diarism
	Pandemic Palimpsests: Contextualizing Corona-Lit
	Blurring Boundaries: Reader Protagonists and the Configuration of a Transgeneric Genre
	Crossed (Mis-)Readings: Sylvie Germain’s Brèves de solitude
	Hallucinating Rieux: Erik Eising’s Tagebuch der sanften Quarantäne
	Camus “at first degree”? Alexandre Najjar’s La Couronne du diable
	Doctors as Readers: Lawrence Wright, Wim Daniëls & Co.
	Reading Chekhov in Corona Times:  Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends
	Procopius, Poetry and Politics: Vincent Message’s Les Années sans soleil
	Tentative Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Corona Fictions
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions
	Introduction
	Gender, Social Norms and Hysteria
	Agency and Anxiety
	Agency by Strictly Following the Rules
	Agency by an Outburst of Violence
	Agency by Transferring Emotions
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado
	La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado
	La madre del futbolista  como una novela de la crisis económica
	La modalidad pandémica  en La madre del futbolista
	La mujer en el mercado capitalista como protagonista pandémica
	Bibliografía
		Bibliografía primaria
		Bibliografía secundaria
Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions
	Introduction
	The (Pandemic) Waves
	Dalloway-esque Superspreader
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
	Images
‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19
	Introducción
	Balada triste para armónica, de Sebastián Moreno: prisioneros en casa
	Machu Picchu, de Jerónimo López Mozo: residencias, incomunicación y muerte
	Justo en la noche, de Raúl Hernández Garrido: entre memoria y olvido
	Conclusiones
	Bibliografía
		Bibliografía primaria
		Bibliografía secundaria
Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010)
	Introduction: Immunity and Community
	Heroic Immunity? From ‘Privilege’ to Resistance
	Facing Dilemmas through Resistance
	Self-blindness as a Counter-Model of Immunity
	How to Survive Together? (Collective Resilience in Blindness)
	Concluding Remarks
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature
	Introduction
	Historical Responses to the Arrival of Cholera
	Literary Responses to Cholera: Determinism, Group Unison and Pedagogy
	Cholera, Drinking and Carnival
	Cholera, Crowds and Debauchery
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel
	Introduction
	Un roman écologiste : les humains, spectateurs de l’effondrement
		Réseaux sociaux et désagrégation du tissu humain
		L’effondrement pour décor
	Un roman animalier : animaux humains et non humains
		Les animaux, êtres sentients
		Les animaux humains et leur univers mental
	Un roman animaliste : les animaux comme personnes
		Un pamphlet animaliste
		Nuisibles, familiers ou sauvages
	Un roman antispéciste : esquisse écoféministe
		La fin de l’androcène
		Autodétermination féminine
		Le devenir lesbien
	Une écosophie : penser le monde présent
		Multiplication vs prolifération
		Recomposition du paysage
		Peupler le monde d’après
	Conclusion
	Bibliographie
		Œuvre analysée
		Ouvrages cités
The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity
	Introduction
	Animals Forewarning Disaster
	Animals Worsening and Causing Outbreaks
	Animals Conferring Immunity
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Works Analyzed
		Works Cited
	Images
Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema
	Introduction
	The Political Challenge of Portraying Germs
	Making the Invisible Enemy Visible
	Germs as Social Protagonists
	The Making of Epidemiological Enemies
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics
	An All-Too-Human-Virus
	Another Virus
	Another “Typhoid Mary”
	Coda
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana
	Strumenti teorici: sul concetto di Agency
	La suddivisione temporale delle narrazioni: un’analisi comparata
	Autobiografia e distopia
	Dall’autobiografia al recupero degli ‘altri’
	Metafore di un’agency collettiva
	Conclusioni
	Bibliografia
		Corpus analizzato
		Opere citate
Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions
	Introduction
	Encoding Hope
		Hope: The Protagonist’s Pursuit of Goals and Agency
		From Fear to Hope
	Corona Fictions Agents and Comedy: Encoding Hope and the Power of Agency
		Pandemic Protagonists and Agency
		Corona Fictions Comedies
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Corpus Analyzed
		Works Cited
	Figures