“Untenanted by any Tangible Form”: Illness, Minorities, and Narrative Masquerades in Contemporary Pandemic Fiction
In the current Covid-19 crisis, masks have become a ubiquitous sight in social situa- tions. As visual signifiers of both protection and containment, they emblematize the very risk which they serve to prevent. Departing from the multiple functions of the mask in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque o...
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International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
2021-07-01
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| Series: | On_Culture |
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| Online Access: | https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-11/untenanted-by-any-tangible-form/ |