CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - LUIS ALBERTO PÉREZ-AMEZCUA A STUDY OF SIGNIFICANT LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF “APOCALYPSES” CAUSED BY VIRUSES FROM A TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND A SYMBOLICAL APPROACH
The project will study significant literary representations of viruses from a transcultural perspective, providing information on how literature frames apocalyptic events. The comparison of works from different cultures will be used to explore symbolisms of real-life perceptions and human behavior.
If the novel as such is a symbolic genre (in the sense that it aims to provide readers with orientation in the 'real' world through fiction), how is its effect changed when the manifest fiction becomes reality? How are these novels discussed, re-marketed, re-visited? The objective is to offer interesting insight into the place of the novel in public discourse in the various cultural contexts and explore what can we learn from apocalyptic-symbolic text.