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Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds : Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation /

The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic transformations - the various encounters with anthropogenic climate change, nuclear...

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Otros Autores: Dunn, Michael (Editor ), Eisler, David (Contribuidor), Stümer, Jenny (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mnchen ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]
Colección:Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies , 1
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation
  • Part 1: From Old Worlds to New Worlds
  • A Political Theology of the World That Ends
  • A Godless Apocalypse and the Atom Bombs: Ronald Knox and a New Concept of World Ending
  • Remembering John Ball: Rethinking the Transformation from Old Worlds to New
  • Part 2: World Ending Experiences
  • New World and the End of the World: Apocalyptic Cartographies of the Conquest
  • Mapping Space and Time in Apocalyptic Representations in Latin American Colonial Art
  • Restitutive Writings of Worlds at the Southern Confine of the World
  • Part 3: Apocalyptic Imaginaries
  • The Infrastructure of the Planets of the Apes
  • Pralaya: Competing Apocalypses and Dystopias in Contemporary Indian Science-Fiction
  • Part 4: Action, Activism, Advocacy
  • The Cross and the Pink Shotgun: Apocalypse and the Antifeminist Movement in Bolsonaro's Brazil
  • World without Humans, Humans without World: Apocalyptic Passions in the Anthropocene
  • The Wheelchair and the Whale: Disability and the End of the World
  • Contributors
  • Index