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Pandemic Patterns: The Cultural Semiotics of Medical Crisis

Carmen Birkle, Birgit Däwes, Ingrid Gessner, Marc Priewe


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DOI https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2022/4/4


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Key Words:pandemic fiction, historical overview, COVID-19, American literature

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