Apocalypse : imagining the end / Alannah Ari Hernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernandez, Alannah Ari, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eschatology.

Apocalyptic literature.

Millennialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Contents:

Preliminary Material

The End of the World as We Know It: End of Time Prophecies in Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial

Revaluation of Values: Thoughts on Bion and The Rapture / Nancy Billias

Thinking Apocalypse / Joseph P. Lawrence

Apocalyptic Fantasy in American Film / Charles W. Nuckolls

Falling Men: Images of the Falling Human in Art and Photography / Winfried Gerling

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Visual Expressions of Burial As Loss Of Teleology / Elfriede Dreyer

The Post-Apocalyptic Chronotope / Petter Skult

Drowning Towers: An Antipodean Apocalypse / Andrew Milner

Gendering Apocalypse, Selling (In)Security and Performing Consumption Securing in I Am Legend / Glen Donnar

Doomtown, Australia: Nuclear Apocalypse and the Urban Imagination / Robin Gerster

Apocalypse When? Time and Symbolism as Components of Apocalyptic Situations / Sheila C. Bibb

The Sibylline Oracles and Queen Zenobia of Palmyra: A Case Study for Apocalypse as a Venue for Political Power and Resistance in the Late Roman Empire / Cynthia Finlayson

From King Phillip’s War to the Mayan Apocalypse: Native American and Western Visions of End Times / Michael E. Harkin

Regarding the Signs of the Times: Dispensationalist Spirituality and Prophecy Interpretation in Gilded Age America / Daved Anthony Schmidt

England’s Race Suicide and the Eugenic Apocalypse of Teilhard de Chardin / Timothy J. Sutton

Viral Apocalypses: Preparing for the Worst Case Scenario / Meike Wolf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-278-5

OCLC:

55750788

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882782 DOI