“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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Main Author: Birgit Däwes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2021-07-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-11/untenanted-by-any-tangible-form/