Apocalyptic transformation : apocalypse and the postmodern imagination /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosen, Elizabeth K., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism.
End of the world in literature.
Apocalypse in motion pictures.
Postmodernism.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature apocalyptique > Histoire et critique.
Fin du monde dans la littérature.
Fin du monde au cinéma.
Postmodernisme.
American fiction.
Apocalyptic literature.
Weltuntergang > Motiv
Literatur
Postmoderne
Film.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sentient vegetable claims end is near! : the graphic novels of Alan Moore
  • Blue-footed boobies and other witnesses to the end : Kurt Vonnegut's apocalyptic novels
  • A tortured state of mind : Terry Gilliam's New Jerusalem
  • Apocalypse reloaded : the Matrix trilogy
  • Willingly believing fiction : Robert Coover and apocalypse as metafiction
  • All the expended faith : apocalyptism in Don DeLillo's novels.

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