Criticism, crisis, and contemporary narrative :  textual horizons in an age of global risk / 
edited by Paul Crosthwaite. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2011. 
 - vi, 226 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;  4 .
<br/><br/> Pt. 1. Critical thought/critical times -- Will the apocalypse have been now? : Literary criticism in an age of global risk / Molly Wallace -- The future of the future / Nick Mansfield -- The incredible shrinking human / Charlie Gere -- The risks of sustainability / Karen Pinkus -- Pt. 2. Critical perspectives on crisis narratives -- Narrating the coming pandemic : pandemic influenza, anticipatory anxiety, and neurotic citizenship / Penelope Ironstone-Catterall -- Global capitalism and a dystopian South Africa : Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes / Andries Visagie -- Gray goo and you : the ecophagy of gobal capital / Robin Stoate -- Risk and morality in Ian McEwan's Saturday / Lidia De Michelis -- The corporation of terror : risk and the fictions of the'financial war' / Nicky Marsh -- Waiting for crisis : Casino Royale, financial aesthetics, and national narrative form / Alissa G. Karl -- Phantasmagoric finance : crisis and the supernatural in contemporary finance culture / Paul Crosthwaite -- The green afterword : Cormac McCarthy's The road and the ecological uncanny / Rebecca Giggs. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415879491  RM393.76 0415879493 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.<br/>Crisis in literature.<br/>Psychic trauma in literature.