Narratives of Hope and Despair

Name: Narratives of Hope and Despair | Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
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Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture

Johanna M. Wagner Melanie Duckworth Deanna Benjamin(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 14. Oktober 2025

238 Seiten

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In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crises, to which despair is an understandable response. Yet hope is continually sought and proclaimed. By examining tropes of ruin and regeneration in a wide selection of narratives including memoir, graphic narratives, fiction, film, art, radio plays, culture, rhetoric, and discourse, the book uncovers resonances between them. The anthology moves from the personal to the collective, addressing individual matters of the body and the mind, societal visions of utopia and dystopia, and, finally, hope and despair for the earth itself in representations of apocalypse and the Anthropocene. This structure, alongside the interdisciplinary nature of the project, maps dynamic international perspectives in which hope and despair flow across and through personal, social, and earthly concerns.

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Narratives of Hope and Despair: Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture brings together a rich and diverse collection of voices from across the global scholarly community to explore the various and varied ways in which narrative produces and is produced by the lived, felt experiences of hope and despair. The thirteen chapters that comprise the body of this volume engage myriad genres-from the novel to the graphic novel to film to the radio play to memoir and autobiography, to name only a few-in the quest to rigorously interrogate and thoughtfully articulate "how we create and handle hope and despair, ruin and rejuvenation, in narratives of critical moments and times." The result is a meticulously researched, highly original, and compelling volume that will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of academics who represent many fields from across the arts and humanities.

Heath A. Diehl, Teaching Professor, Bowling Green State University, USA

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