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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.
Apocalyptic Transformation
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Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2008-02-15
Apocalyptic Transformation written by Elizabeth K. Rosen and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Post Apocalyptic Culture
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Author : Teresa Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-12-04
Post Apocalyptic Culture written by Teresa Heffernan and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Apocalyptic Transformation
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language : en
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Release Date : 2010
Apocalyptic Transformation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with American fiction categories.
No Apocalypse No Integration
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Author : Martin Hopenhayn
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-08
No Apocalypse No Integration written by Martin Hopenhayn and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-08 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition) What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in a region marked by incomplete modernization, new waves of privatization, great masses of excluded peoples, and profound sociocultural heterogeneity? In No Apocalypse, No Integration Martín Hopenhayn examines the social and philosophical implications of the triumph of neoliberalism and the collapse of leftist and state-sponsored social planning in Latin America. With the failure of utopian movements that promised social change, the rupture of the link between the production of knowledge and practical intervention, and the defeat of modernization and development policy established after World War II, Latin American intellectuals and militants have been left at an impasse without a vital program of action. Hopenhayn analyzes these crises from a theoretical perspective and calls upon Latin American intellectuals to reevaluate their objects of study, their political reality, and their society’s cultural production, as well as to seek within their own history the elements for a new collective discourse. Challenging the notion that strict adherence to a single paradigm of action can rescue intellectual and cultural movements, Hopenhayn advocates a course of epistemological pluralism, arguing that such an approach values respect for difference and for cultural and theoretical diversity and heterodoxy. This essay collection will appeal to readers of sociology, public policy, philosophy, cultural theory, and Latin American history and culture, as well as to those with an interest in Latin America’s current transition.
Alienation Apocalypse And The Postmodern Condition In I Am Legend By Richard Matheson
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Author : Maximilian Rütters
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Alienation Apocalypse And The Postmodern Condition In I Am Legend By Richard Matheson written by Maximilian Rütters and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: The work that will be focused on the novel “I Am Legend“ by Richard Matheson brings together the idea of the last living human on earth and the myth of vampires. The author shows the theories of the novel that are hidden between the lines. These theories are on the one hand easy to find and very obvious but on the other hand they have to be decoded word by word. To be more specific, I will try to show that the condition of alienation is one of the main topics in Matheson’s writing. Moreover, I will show some postmodern aspect of the novel and why it is so fascinating to read apocalyptic writings. The novel may be written in 1954 and set in the late 1970s but it can be a model for current interpretations of the apocalypse since apocalyptic writings make sense of bad things and are coping with situations in which people feel helpless.
From The Civil War To The Apocalypse
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Author : Timothy Parrish
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 2008
From The Civil War To The Apocalypse written by Timothy Parrish and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"Recent postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction ... In addressing the postmodernist claim that history works no differently than fiction, Timothy Parrish rejects the implication that history is dead or hopelessly relativistic. Rather, he shows how the best postmodern novelists compel their readers to accept their narratives as true. These novelists write history as a form of fiction ... Parrish concludes that history, not identity, is the ground of postmodern American fiction"--Publisher's description.
The Last Book Of Postmodernism
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Author : Michael A. Peters
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2011
The Last Book Of Postmodernism written by Michael A. Peters and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Education categories.
The Last Book of Postmodernism comprises set of essays written on and about 'postmodernism' and education. It is written in an apocalyptic tone that treats themes of religion and spiritualism, drawing on poststructuralist sources of inspiration, to contrast the present 'postmodern condition' and the philosophical significance and historical influence of Nietzsche's statement 'God is dead.' The book considers the meaning of the 'end' of Christendom and the prospect of global spirituality. It also considers the 'end' of literature and the beginning of user-generated cultures and the implications of this shift for education and the philosophical model of dialogue that has dominated the humanities in the West. It charts the 'end' of philosophy and the rise of 'body' criticism, the promise of the Enlightenment, the relation between education, power and freedom, geophilosophy and the pedagogy of the concept, and the narrative turn as a basis for a new critical language for educational studies. Finally, the book considers post-postmodernism and the 'end' of the linguistic turn in educational theory.
Fin De Si Cle Fictions 1890s 1990s
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Author : A. Mousoutzanis
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Fin De Si Cle Fictions 1890s 1990s written by A. Mousoutzanis and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle 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.
The Post Apocalyptic Novel In The Twenty First Century
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Author : H. Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-08
The Post Apocalyptic Novel In The Twenty First Century written by H. Hicks and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction': the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad knowledge of the history of apocalyptic literature, Hicks examines the most influential post-apocalyptic novels written since the beginning of the new millennium, including works by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Jeanette Winterson, Colson Whitehead, and Paolo Bacigalupi. Situating her careful readings in relationship to the scholarship of a wide range of historians, theorists, and literary critics, she argues that these texts use the post-apocalyptic form to reevaluate modernity in the context of the new century's political, economic, and ecological challenges. In the immediate wake of disaster, the characters in these novels desperately scavenge the scraps of the modern world. But what happens to modernity beyond these first moments of salvage? In a period when postmodernism no longer defines cultural production, Hicks convincingly demonstrates that these writers employ conventions of post-apocalyptic genre fiction to reengage with key features of modernity, from historical thinking and the institution of nationhood to rationality and the practices of literacy itself.