Digital Media, Fears, and Their Ontological Demagogic Power: Utopia, Homeland, Occupied
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Yvonne Bezrucka
Yvonne Bezrucka, PhD, is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. She has worked on Victorianism, Modernism and Post-Modernism. More recent topics cover the Enlightenment, Religion, Migration, and Diaspora Studies. Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, Identity-Politics and the Geopolitical use of visual space-metaphors, are analysed via a Nation-Narration and Invented-Identity Eristics/Aesthetics. Visual Studies and Visual Rhetoric are applied to Literature, Visual Media, and TV series. She has published
Genio e immaginazione nel Settecento inglese (2002),Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dell’Ottocento (2005), “The Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardy’s Manifesto of ‘Regional Aesthetics,”VLC , C.U.P., 2008,A Synopsis of English Literature (2015),The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in eighteenth-Century English Literature (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017).
Abstract
The article aims to focus on the rhetoric of TV-series. Utopia, Homeland, and Occupied, are thus examined in their characterizing traits, being all constructed via the epistemic filter of a fear-eristics that often produces an oversimplified propaganda jargon linked to a racist imagology. How these digital, but ontologically guided, rhetorical strategies then work with populism is made clear in the essay.
About the author
Yvonne Bezrucka, PhD, is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. She has worked on Victorianism, Modernism and Post-Modernism. More recent topics cover the Enlightenment, Religion, Migration, and Diaspora Studies. Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, Identity-Politics and the Geopolitical use of visual space-metaphors, are analysed via a Nation-Narration and Invented-Identity Eristics/Aesthetics. Visual Studies and Visual Rhetoric are applied to Literature, Visual Media, and TV series. She has published Genio e immaginazione nel Settecento inglese (2002), Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dell’Ottocento (2005), “The Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardy’s Manifesto of ‘Regional Aesthetics,” VLC, C.U.P., 2008, A Synopsis of English Literature (2015), The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in eighteenth-Century English Literature (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017).
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Digital Ontology and Epistemology. Between Law, Literature and the Visual Arts
- “The Earth Is Flat!” The Literary Complexity of Truth, Lies and Fake Knowledge
- Saving Content in Digital Surroundings: A Safe Solution?
- Digital Justice: Shining Future or Illusory Chimera?
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- Law as Literature: The Interdisciplinary Endeavour of Oudropo,, and Their Interdisciplinary Play with Text
- The Merchant of Venice and the Paschal Moon
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