CONTENTS ELIZABETH KOVACH, ANSGAR NÜNNING, IMKE POLLAND Where Literature and Crises Meet: Coming to Terms with Two Complex Concepts and Their Interfaces 1 I. EARLY MODERN HISTORICAL CRISES AND CRISES OF GENRE ANGELA LOCATELLI Experiencing and Responding to Crisis: Layered Discourses and Hybrid Epistemologies in Early Modern English Culture 31 ELISABETH WÅGHÄLL NIVRE Early Modern Travel Accounts and the Male Body: Exploring the Aesthetics of Human Crisis 45 EMANUEL STELZER The Crisis in/of the History Play in Early Stuart England: Strange Subjections in John Ford's Perkin Warbeck (1634) 59 II. CRISES OF LANGUAGE AND REPRESENTATION IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE FREDERIK TYGSTRUP Moments of Crisis in Post-War European Literature 75 LAURA OULANNE The Feeling of Show and Tell: Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914) and the Crisis of Representation in Modernist Literature 91 VERENA LINDEMANN Rereading Alves Redol's O Cavalo Espantado (1960): Literary Negotiations of a Refugee Crisis and the Remembrance of Jewish Refugees in Lisbon 105 SANJA NIVESJÖ Queering Form and Content: A Crisis of Whiteness in Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974) and J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country (1977) 117 ALEXANDRA EFFE Fighting Real Fires with Fictional Flames: J. M. Coetzee's Literary Response to Political and Discursive Crises 131 III. LITERARY NARRATIONS OF MINDS IN CRISIS ROBERT A. WINKLER Requiem: Hermann Burger's Brenner (1989) and the Crisis of Performing Life (and Suicide) in Autobiographical Writing 145 ANNA OVASKA Minds in Crises: Literary Representations of Psychotic Experiences 159 SUSANNE CHRIST Dementia: 'Crisis'? 'Seasickness'? - J. Bernlef's Novel Out of Mind (1989) as a Corrective to Medial Representations of Dementia 175 IV. NEGOTIATIONS OF 21ST-CENTURY ISSUES & CRISES IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURES PETER HANENBERG The Ultimate Crisis: Narrating and Translating Europe 191 IMKE POLLAND A Golden Age of Monarchy? Staging Hypothetical Crises in Mike Bartlett's King Charles III (2014) 203 STELLA LANGE Cinematic Narratives of Crises in the Film Musical Across the Universe (2007) 221 SNEZANA VULETIC The Novel as a 'Crisis Manager' in Contemporary Nigerian Culture: The Case of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) 239 SABINE SCHÖNFELLNER Do Posthumans Dream of Becoming Animals? Literary Negotiations of the Human Being in Crisis in 21st-Century Fiction 251 SARA ERIKSSON Social Media Life Writing and the Crisis of the Public Sphere: Mira Gonzalez and the Trope of Oversharing 263 ANDRESSA SCHRÖDER Exploring Beyond the Representations of the Environmental Crisis: (Per-)Formative and Affective Conditions of the Environmental-Self 275 ukryj opis