Imagining Apocalypse
Title | Imagining Apocalypse PDF eBook |
Author | David Seed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Apocalyptic literature |
ISBN | 9781349648979 |
Imagining Apocalypse
Title | Imagining Apocalypse PDF eBook |
Author | NA NA |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1137076577 |
This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects. Among the writers covered are H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J. G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.
The Apocalyptic Imagination
Title | The Apocalyptic Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Collins |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467445177 |
One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre. After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts — the early Enoch literature, the book of Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and others — concluding with an examination of apocalypticism in early Christianity. Collins has updated this third edition throughout to account for the recent profusion of studies germane to ancient Jewish apocalypticism, and he has also substantially revised and updated the bibliography.
Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene
Title | Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene PDF eBook |
Author | Earl T. Harper |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2021-09-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000453502 |
Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment. Exploring their own empirical and philosophical contexts, the authors examine the forms of political acting found in apocalyptic imaginaries and reflect on what this means for contemporary society. By framing their arguments around either pre-apocalyptic, peri-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic narratives and events, a timeline emerges throughout the volume which shows the different opportunities for political agency the anthropocenic subject can enact at the various stages of apocalyptic moments. Featuring a number of creative interventions exclusively produced for the work from artists and fiction writers who engage with the themes of apocalypse, decline, catastrophe and disaster, this innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the politics of climate change, the environmental humanities, literary criticism and eco-criticism.
Apocalyptic Transformation
Title | Apocalyptic Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth K. Rosen |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2008-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1461632935 |
Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.
Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Title | Apocalypse: Imagining the End PDF eBook |
Author | Alannah Ari Hernandez |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2019-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1848882785 |
Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Title | Apocalypse: Imagining the End PDF eBook |
Author | Alannah Ari Hernandez |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Apocalyptic literature |
ISBN | 9789004372030 |