Volume 3, Number 1, 2020

 

Volume 3, Number 1, 2020

Special Issue on

Diseases, Death and Disorder in Arts, Literature and Culture

Guest-edited by

Thakurdas Jana

Chief Editor’s Column: From Pandemic to Pan-academic: Changing Modes of Publication in the Time of COVID 19
Mir Ahammad Ali
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Editorial Introduction: Special Issue on Diseases, Disasters, Deaths and Disorders in Arts, Literature and Culture
Thakurdas Jana
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Interviews
A Conversation with Dr. Albrecht Classen on “Diseases, Death and Disaster during the Medieval Period”
Pragati Das
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“Death and Diseases in Shakespeare”: An Interview with Dr. Tirthankar Das Purkayastha
Niladri Mahapatra
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On Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Thakurdas Jana
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Interview Response
Our Global Guild: Responding to Sathyaraj Venkatesan’s “On Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine”
A David Lewis
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Reflections
London’s Seventeenth Century Plague and Our Global Pandemic
Fakrul Alam
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COVID-19 – What does it mean in personal terms?
Albrecht Classen
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Scholarly Articles
Confronting Dementia, Debility and Disease: the Dystopian Temper in Beckett
Arnab Chatterjee
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Human Décadence and Grandeur in Albert Camus ’ The Plague
Abdeldjalil Larbi Youcef
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Novel Corona vs. Novel Metaphysics: from Disease to Philosophy Resurging Antinatalism in Amish Tripathi’s Raavan
Shikha Thakur
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Narratives of Contagion: A Post- Apocalyptic Reading of Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague
Sherin M. Johnson
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Evolution of Human Response to Diseases: Rereading Select Films and Plays in the Context of COVID-19
Krishnendu Bera
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Finding Pandora: A Mythic Response to the Coronavirus
Loraine Haywood
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Immortality beyond Dasein: On Heidegger, Lord Shiva and Death
Dibyendu Bhattacharyay
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Vulnerable Haptics of Posthuman Bodies in Brenda Peynado’s The Touches
Biju M.A.
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“Hell hath enlarged Herself”: Reading the Salem Witch Trials in Times of Corona
Priyanka Das
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City-Scapes, Adulteration and Everyday Anxiety: A Study of News Media’s Constitution of Chronic Diseases
Diksha Narang
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“Corona is the cure humans are the disease”: Coronavirus Disease and Celebration of Death as Sacrifice
Srijoni Banerjee
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“April is the Cruellest Month”: A Philosophical Inquiry into Humanity during the Corona Pandemic through T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
Sanjna Plawat
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The Spread of Diseases: A Corollary of Colonialism
Neetija Mishra
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Sense of Innocence and Fascination with Death in Some Selected Poems of Wordsworth
Asish Kr Charan
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‘The time is out of joint’: Discourses of Diseases and Discontent in the Body Politic
Debaditya Chakraborty & Rajarshi Bagchi
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Can “Disease” be the Cure?: Bio-Weapons in Population Control, Demodystopia, and the Question of Consent in Dan Brown’s Inferno
Isha Biswas
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From Monstrosity to Motherhood: Impact of Plague on the Royal Burmese Family in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace
Soumen Chatterjee
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Students’ Section
Epidemics and its After Effects on Society: A Study of the Three Most Devastating Epidemics in the European History
Sandip Majhi
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Epidemics of the Greek World and its Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, Homer’s Iliad and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
Rajesh Shyamal
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Disaster and Its Studies: Reinterpreting Disasters in Homer’s Iliad and Sophocles’Oedipus Rex
Banhishikha Maity
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