Apocalypse Deferred
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Apocalypse Deferred
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Author : Jeremiah L. Alberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Apocalypse Deferred written by Jeremiah L. Alberg and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Religion categories.
The thought of René Girard on violence, sacrifice, and mimetic theory has exerted a strong influence on Japanese scholars as well as around the world. In this collection of essays, originating from a Tokyo conference on violence and religion, scholars call on Girardian ideas to address apocalyptic events that have marked Japan's recent history as well as other aspects of, primarily, Japanese literature and culture. Girard's theological notion of apocalypse resonates strongly with those grappling with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as events such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In its focus on Girard and devastating violence, the contributors raise issues of promise and peril for us all. The essays in Part I of the volume are primarily rooted in the events of World War II. The contributors employ mimetic theory to respond to the use of nuclear weapons and the threat of absolute destruction. Essays in Part II cover a wide range of topics in Japanese cultural history from the viewpoint of mimetic theory, ranging from classic and modern Japanese literature to anime. Essays in Part III address theological questions and mimetic theory, especially from a Judeo-Christian perspective. Contributors: Jeremiah L. Alberg, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Yoko Irie Fayolle, Eric Gans, Sandor Goodhart, Shoichiro Iwakari, Mizuho Kawasaki, Kunio Nakahata, Andreas Oberprantacher, Mery Rodriguez, Thomas Ryba, Richard Schenk, OP, Roberto Solarte, Matthew Taylor, and Anthony D. Traylor.
Apocalypse Then
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Author : Rick DeMarinis
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Apocalypse Then written by Rick DeMarinis and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Fiction categories.
Despite the world’s insecurities, the most common drama of all is not of apocalypse now, but of apocalypse deferred; the pain of living is having to wait it out. In Apocalypse Then, DeMarinis’s characters try alcohol, they try travel, and (most of all) they try off-limits love. They find themselves in harm’s way, or put themselves there—but in life, as the title story states, "sometimes the worst doesn’t happen."
Modernism Christianity And Apocalypse
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-10-30
Modernism Christianity And Apocalypse written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Art categories.
Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of ‘Modernism and Christianity’ and ‘Apocalypse Studies’. The modernist impulse to ‘make it new’, to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the ‘new’, but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siècle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of ‘political religions’, to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study.
Apocalypse Then
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Author : Rick DeMarinis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-01-15
Apocalypse Then written by Rick DeMarinis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-15 with categories.
"However similar the existential suffering of his characters, DeMarinis expertly probes the contours of their condition. You simply can't move your eyes from the page."-Mark Smirnoff, "The New York Times Book Review "Apocalypse Then asks what remains, when life goes on long enough for the explanations of youth-sex, ambition, immortality-to lose expedience. In delightfully wry, agile prose, DeMarinis taps stores of novelty and freshness in close-at-hand themes. His characters are cursed with a bleak awareness of time's passage, yet are unable to embrace the changes and the challenges that might offer escape. They try alcohol, they try travel, and (most of all) they try off-limits love. They find themselves in harm's way, or put themselves there-but in life, as the title story states, "sometimes the worst doesn't happen." Despite the world's insecurities, the most common drama of all is not of apocalypse now, but of apocalypse deferred; the pain of living is having to wait it out. Stories in "Apocalypse Then sound notes of redemption, as in "Birds of the Mountain West," when a man who goes to comfort his friend, a suicidal drunk, recalls seeing birds intoxicated on fermented berries. "Then, at sunset, the mob of wasted waxwings settled in a single tree and faced the setting sun, trilling long plaintive notes for the dying of the light-a fine feathered choir of happily pious drunks. . . " "Apocalypse Then is an unforgettable contribution to the literature of real life, with a meaning close to home. Rick DeMarinis is the author of six novels. "The Year of the Zinc Penny was a 1989 "New York Times Notable Book. "Borrowed Hearts, his definitive short story collection, includesstories from his three previous collections, together with his new work prior to this volume.
Postmodern Apocalypse
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Author : Richard Dellamora
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1995
Postmodern Apocalypse written by Richard Dellamora and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art categories.
From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In Postmodern Apocalypse, Richard Dellamora and his contributors examine apocalypse in works by late twentieth-century writers, filmmakers, and critics.
Coming Soon
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Author : John Barth
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2001
Coming Soon written by John Barth and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the heat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cultural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmodernism and modernism.
Environmental Apocalypse In Science And Art
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Author : Sergio Fava
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-04
Environmental Apocalypse In Science And Art written by Sergio Fava and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with Social Science categories.
At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, religion, art, and the apocalyptic. Demonstrating how the current domination of climate policy by models and scenarios is part of the problem, the book examines how artistic practices are a critical location to ask questions differently, rethink environmental futures, and activate social change. The analysis starts with another moment of climatic change in recent western history: the overlap of the Little Ice Age and the "scientific revolution," during which intense climatic, scientific and political change were contemporary with mathematical calculation of the apocalypse. Dealing with the need for complex answers to complex and urgent questions, this is essential reading for those interested in climate action, interdisciplinary research and methodological innovation. The empirical analyses amount to a methodological experiment, across history of science, theology, art theory and history, architecture, future studies, climatology, computer modelling, and agricultural policy. This book is a major contribution to understanding how we are precluding effective climate action, and designing futures that resemble our worst nightmares.
Apocalypse Imagining The End
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Author : Alannah Ari Hernandez
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Apocalypse Imagining The End written by Alannah Ari Hernandez and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Social Science categories.
Lyric Apocalypse
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Author : Ryan Netzley
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2015-01-22
Lyric Apocalypse written by Ryan Netzley and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
What’s new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new. John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change in the present. In this respect they take seriously the Reformation’s insistence that eschatology is a historical phenomenon. Yet these poets are also reacting to the Regicide, and, as a result, their works explore very modern questions about the nature of events, what it means for a significant historical occasion to happen. Lyric Apocalypse argues that Milton’s and Marvell’s lyrics challenge any retrospective understanding of events, including one built on a theory of revolution. Instead, these poems show that there is no “after” to the apocalypse, that if we are going to talk about change, we should do so in the present, when there is still time to do something about it. For both of these poets, lyric becomes a way to imagine an apocalyptic event that would be both hopeful and new.
Apocalyptic Shakespeare
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Author : Melissa Croteau
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Apocalyptic Shakespeare written by Melissa Croteau and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.