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Plotting Apocalypse : Reading, Agency, and Identity in the Left Behind Series /
It is the not-too-distant future, and the rapture has occurred. Every born-again Christian on the planet has, without prior warning, been snatched from the earth to meet Christ in the heavens - while all those without the requisite faith have been left behind to suffer the wrath of the Antichrist as...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cracking the prophecy code : reading as an act of agency
- The paranoia of plot : narrative, conspiracy, and agency
- "What a show!" : apocalyptic spectacle and the agency of watching
- "In the world but not of it" : agency and social engagement
- A very American apocalypse : Left Behind's neoliberal end-times vision
- The revelation will be televised : media, celebrity, and authority in Left Behind
- Negotiated agency : female subjectivities at the end of history
- Queering the apocalypse : homosocial, homophobic, and homoerotic subjectivities in Left Behind
- Conclusion : Both now and not yet : reading in the shadow of the rapture.