Post-Apocalyptic Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Apocalyptic Culture write by Teresa Heffernan. This book was released on 2008-12-04. Post-Apocalyptic Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocalypse was intricately linked to the emergence of a better world, to revelation, and to disclosure. In this interdisciplinary study, Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end. Probing the cultural and historical reasons for this shift in the understanding of apocalypse, she also considers the political implications of living in a world that does not rely on revelation as an organizing principle. With fascinating readings of works by William Faulkner, Don DeLillo, Ford Madox Ford, Toni Morrison, E.M. Forster, Salman Rushdie, D.H. Lawrence, and Angela Carter, Post-Apocalyptic Culture is a provocative study of how twentieth-century culture and society responded to a world in which a belief in the end had been exhausted.
Apocalypse Culture
Apocalypse Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalypse Culture write by Adam Parfrey. This book was released on 1987. Apocalypse Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ""Apocalypse Culture" is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century."-J.G. Ballard
The End of the World
The End of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of the World write by Maria Manuel Lisboa. This book was released on 2011. The End of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production - from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This volume examines historical and imaginary scenarios of apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapes in the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Armageddon and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lisboa also takes into account religious doctrine, scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinary study that provides profound insight into one of Western culture's most fascinating and enduring preoccupations.
Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture write by John Hay. This book was released on 2020-12-17. Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.
Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture
Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture write by Monica Germana. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world’s globalised space, the traumatic burden of history, and the mutual relationship between language and eschatological belief, fifteen original essays by a group of internationally established and emerging critics reflect on the apocalypse, its past tradition, pervasive present and future legacy. The collection seeks to offer a new reading of the apocalypse, understood as a complex – and, frequently, paradoxical – paradigm of (contemporary) Western culture. The majority of published collections on the subject have been published prior to the year 2000 and, in their majority of cases, locate the apocalypse in the future and envision it as something imminent. This collection offers a post-millennial perspective that perceives "the end" as immanent and, simultaneously, rooted in the past tradition.
