Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture, John Hay
Автор: Mazurek, Marcin Название: Sense of apocalypse ISBN: 363164812X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631648124 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 43430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West’s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular connotations of the term, apocalypse is viewed here in terms of a transitional narrative locating the subject at the intersection of technological determinism, pop-cultural imagination, postmodern urbanism and digital textuality. All these form the components of a new post-apocalyptic landscape, which not only produces a new identity informed by dissolving post-Enlightenment paradigms, but also conjures up hints at a large number of existential possibilities triggered by late-capitalist technologies and their cultural consequences.
One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. Complementing her visions of a world-encompassing natural plague (The Last Man, 1826) and man-made technological self-eradication (Frankenstein, 1818), the third - and oldest - paradigm of how to depict humankind's demise is the religious notion of Apocalypse, God's Day of Reckoning. Through in-depth philosophical and theological contextualization of the German, French and British literary settings of the apocalyptic tradition around 1800, Sublime Conclusions chronicles the transition from theism and deism to atheism and the 'Death of God' on which, Weninger contends, Shelley's novels - and hence modern science fiction in general - are premised. A tour de force of comparative methodology, Weninger's transdisciplinary approach is as wide-ranging as it is meticulous, interweaving the manifold discourses of catastrophe in literary history, art and film history, philosophy and theology, as well as the history of science and science fiction, across more than two centuries of European intellectual history from Voltaire's mid-eighteenth-century response to the earthquake of Lisbon to G nther Anders's presaging, in the wake of Hiroshima, humankind's extinction through nuclear Armageddon.
Robert Weninger is Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's College London.
Автор: Mousoutzanis Aris Название: Fin-de-Siecle Fictions, 1890s-1990s ISBN: 1137263652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137263650 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Fin-de-Siecle Fictions, 1890s-1990s focuses on fin-de-siecle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
Автор: Manjikian Mary Название: Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End ISBN: 0739190660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739190661 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 45540.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mary Manjikian's Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing civilization. Apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and historic Britain, then, are affirmed as a creative luxury of development. Manjikian examines a number of such novels using the lens of an international relations theorist, identifying faults in the logic of the American exceptionalists who would argue that America is uniquely endowed with resources and a place in the world, both of which make continued growth and expansion simultaneously desirable and inevitable. In contrast, Manjikian shows, apocalyptic narratives explore America as merely one nation among many, whose trajectory is neither unique nor destined for success. Apocalypse and Post-Politics ultimately argues that the apocalyptic narrative provides both a counterpoint and a corrective to the narrative of exceptionalism. Apocalyptic concepts provide a way for contemporary Americans to view the international system from below: from the perspective of those who are powerless rather than those who are powerful. This sort of theorizing is also useful for intelligence analysts who question how it all will end, and whether America's decline can be predicted or prevented.
Автор: Powe, B.w. Название: Marshall mcluhan and northrop frye ISBN: 1442616164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442616165 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 45050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pattemore Название: The People of God in the Apocalypse ISBN: 0521078962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521078962 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 35910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines how the original audience of the Apocalypse would have heard themselves portrayed in the visions of chapters 4-22, and in what directions it would have motivated them. Stephen Pattemore uses linguistic analysis to help understand Revelation in the context of other biblical and non-biblical texts.
Автор: Bethea David M. Название: The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction ISBN: 0691634424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691634425 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction.
Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Автор: Bethea David M. Название: The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction ISBN: 0691605459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691605456 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These ed
Автор: Manjikian Mary Название: Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End ISBN: 0739166220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739166222 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 217640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology as before then, it was widely seen as merely the detritus of obsolete phonological processes. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, the author here shows that the subject deserves more respect and that the book has important implications beyond language, extending into human cognition.
Автор: Tanaka Motoko Название: Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction ISBN: 1137373547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137373540 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
Автор: Bruckner Название: The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse ISBN: 074566976X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745669762 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 21120.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: M. Tanaka Название: Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction ISBN: 1349476668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349476664 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 65210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
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