Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture : Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

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Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture : Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 260 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781138547438
  • DDC分類 809.9338

Full Description

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world's globalised space, the traumatic burden of history, and the mutual relationship between language and eschatological belief, fifteen original essays by a group of internationally established and emerging critics reflect on the apocalypse, its past tradition, pervasive present and future legacy.

The collection seeks to offer a new reading of the apocalypse, understood as a complex - and, frequently, paradoxical - paradigm of (contemporary) Western culture. The majority of published collections on the subject have been published prior to the year 2000 and, in their majority of cases, locate the apocalypse in the future and envision it as something imminent. This collection offers a post-millennial perspective that perceives "the end" as immanent and, simultaneously, rooted in the past tradition.

Contents

Introduction: After the End? Monica Germanà & Aris Mousoutzanis Part 1: Theory 1. Apocalyptic Security: Biopower and the Changing Skin of Historic Germination Lee Quinby 2. To Have Done with the End Times: Turning the Apocalypse into a Non-Event Sophie Fuggle 3. Are Ruses Necessary to Evade Catastrophe? On Slavoj Žižek's Endorsement of Jean-Pierre Dupuy's "Faire comme si le pire était inevitable" John Vignaux Smyth 4. The Apocalyptic Sublime: Then and Now Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik Part 2: Space, Place and Environment 6. The Post-Apocalyptic Sublime: A Gothic Response to Contemporary Environmental Crisis in John Burnside's Glister (2009) Emily Horton 7. Under the Westway and Up in the Air: New Brutalist Aftermath Aesthetics in J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island (1974) and High-Rise (1975) Joanne Murray 8. Escape / Landscape / Genderscape: No Futures for Women Elizabeth Russell 9. 'Soul Delay': Trauma and Globalization in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (2003) Aris Mousoutzanis Part 3: Time and History 10. The Not so Cozy Catastrophe: Re-Imagining the British Disaster Novel in J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) and Brian Aldiss's Barefoot in the Head (1969) Christopher Daley 11. Apocalyptic Themes in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones (2009) Magdalena Zolkos 12. "Billows of Ash": Cormac McCarthy's Road Back to Auschwitz Francesca Haig 13. The Ambassadors of Nil: Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse Alexandra Warwick and David Cunningham Part 4: Language and the End of the Word 14. Language Decay and Creation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction William Abberley 15. "What are all those things he once thought he knew, and where have they gone?": The End of the Wor(l)d in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) Monica Germanà 16. Zpocalypse Adam C. Roberts

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