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Station Eleven 2016-2017
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The MacEwan Book for 2016-17 is Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven
Selected Articles
Thurman, Christopher. "Apocalypse Whenever: Catastrophe, Privilege and Indifference (or, Whiteness and the End Times)." English Studies In Africa 58.1 (2015): 56-67. Humanities International Complete. Web. 30 June 2015.
Reviews and Discussion Guides
Reviews from a variety of periodicals
Amnesty International February 2016 Discussion Guide for Station Eleven
Interviews and Videos
Mandel, Emily St. John. Interview with Scott Simon. "Survival is Insufficient: 'Station Eleven' Preserves Art After the Apocalypse." Podcast. NPR Books. National Public Radio. 20 June 2015. Web. 30 June 2015.
Mandel, Emily St. John. "Emily St. John Mandel Discusses Station Eleven." BroadcastExchange. Online video clip. Youtube. Youtube. 23 Oct. 2014. Web. 30 June 2015.
Apocalypse in Literature
Christofides, R.M. Shakespeare and the Apocalypse : Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture. London: Continuum International Publishing, 2012. Ebscohost Ebook.
Curtis, Claire P. Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: "We'll Not Go Home Again." Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Goldman, Marlene. Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction. Montreal: MQUP, 2005. Ebscohost Ebook. Web.
Hart, Kylo-Patrick R., and Annette Holba. Media And The Apocalypse. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2009. Print.
Heffernan, Teresa. Post-Apocalyptic Culture : Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Ebscohost Ebook.
Hicks, Heather. The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century : Modernity Beyond Salvage. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. Ebscohost Ebook.
Mazurek, Marcin. A Sense of Apocalypse: Technology, Textuality, Identity. New York: Peter Lang, 2014. Ebscohost Ebook. Web. 29 June 2015.
Sontag, Susan. "The Imagination of Disaster." in Redmond, Sean. Liquid Metal : The Science Fiction Film Reader. Ed. Sean Redmond. Columbia University Press, 2007. EBSCOhost.
Survival is Insufficient
López, Tiffany Ana. "Theatre's Place in Times of Crisis: A Conversation." Theatre Topics 25.1 (2015): 17-22. MLA International Bibliography.
Pierce, Wendall. Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. Print
Smith, Martha Nell. "The Humanities are Not a Luxury: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century." Liberal Education 97.1 (2011): 48-55. ERIC.
Dialogism or Polyphony
"Dialogism." The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature. Ed. Marion Wynne-Davies. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Credo Reference. Web. 6 July 2015.
Helms, Gabriele. Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels. Montréal: McGill Queen's UP, 2003. Ebrary. Web. 6 July 2015.
Pandemics and Plagues in Literature
Berg, Sara van den. "Narrative Texts and Issues in Medical Humanities." Literature Compass 12.11 (2015): 627-639. Wiley Online Library.
Cooke, Jennifer. Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. MyIlibrary. Web. 30 June 2015.
Crawfurd, Raymond Henry Payne. Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. Ebook. Web. 30 June 2015.
De Paolo, Charles. Pandemic Influenza in Fiction : A Critical Study. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2014. Ebscohost Ebook.
Urbanski, Heather. Plagues, Apocalypses and Bug-Eyed Monsters: How Speculative Fiction Shows Us Our Nightmares. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. 2007. Ebscohost Ebook.
Wald, Priscilla. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook.
Travelling Theatre/Theater or Touring Theater Companies
Siobhan, Keenan. Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. Ebscohost Ebook.
Clopper, Lawrence. Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Chicago: Chicago UP. 2001. Print
Dillon, Janette. Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print.
Horse Drawn Magic: Open-Air Theatre in Western Canada. Dir. Dorothy Todd Henaut. Perf. Caravan Stage Company. National Film Board of Canada, 1979. Web. 17 March 2017.
Apocalyptic Narratives and Geek/Nerd Culture
Bagge, Peter. Apocalypse Nerd. Milwaukie, Or.: Dark Horse, 2008. Print.
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York : Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2012. Ebscohost Ebook.
Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Penguin, 2005. Print.
Langley, Alex. Geek Handbook 2.0: More Practical Skills and Advice for the Modern Likeable Geek. Iola, WI: Krause, 2015. Print.
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