Imagining Apocalypse
Subtitle: Studies in Cultural Crisis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: December 17, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780312222796
Subjects: General; Religion / Bible / Criticism, Interpretation / General; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction And Fantasy; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Apocalyptic literature; History and criticism; Literature and society; Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English
Description: "This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment.

Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects."--BOOK JACKET.