Imagining Apocalypse
Studies in Cultural Crisis
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Word Count
63,000 words, Guess
Page Count
252 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10387506M
- ISBN-139780312222796
- ISBN-100312222793
- OCLC Control Number41049430
- OCLC Control Numberimaginingapocaly0000unse
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99014835
- LibraryThing713582
- Goodreads2042198
Classifications
- LCCPR830.S35 I43 2000
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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