
Apocalyptic Chic
Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published on 10. October 2017
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-68393-050-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity's fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human form. It is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The third, The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic (2016), focused on a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 b/w photos;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
577 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68393-050-1 (9781683930501)
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Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
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Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
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Persons
Barbara Brodman is professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Nova Southeastern University.
James E. Doan is professor in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages at Nova Southeastern University.
James E. Doan is professor in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages at Nova Southeastern University.
Content
Introduction
Barbara Brodman and James E Doan
Allegory and Numerology in Apocalyptic Endgames
James E. Doan
"Ic ?a Beheold ?one Ormaetan Lig": Anglo-Saxon Constructions of the Apocalypse Legend as Religious and Communal Threats of Damnation
Alex M. Milmine
The Symbiosis of Norse and Medieval Christian Eschatology in DC Vertigo's Lucifer Series (2000-2006)
Katherine Allocco
Ezekiel's Return to the Apocalypse
Tanner Morrison
Beginning at the End. Romantic Visions of the Last Man in Post-Apocalyptic Robinsonades
Maren Conrad
Brick Houses with Glass Foundations: The Failure Points of Post-Apocalyptic Nationalism
Casey Ratto
The Textuality of Materiality: Will Self's The Book of Dave
Daniel Schaebler
Styling the Post-Apocalyptic Self: Blankets and Rags, Skin and Bones, and the Fabric of Power
Sarah Heaton
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in Canada after 9/11: A Future Based on Care
Annika Rosanowski
"All at once the birds were everywhere": Hitchcock and the Avian Apocalypse
Victoria Williams
Do Cybrace
Barbara Brodman and James E Doan
Allegory and Numerology in Apocalyptic Endgames
James E. Doan
"Ic ?a Beheold ?one Ormaetan Lig": Anglo-Saxon Constructions of the Apocalypse Legend as Religious and Communal Threats of Damnation
Alex M. Milmine
The Symbiosis of Norse and Medieval Christian Eschatology in DC Vertigo's Lucifer Series (2000-2006)
Katherine Allocco
Ezekiel's Return to the Apocalypse
Tanner Morrison
Beginning at the End. Romantic Visions of the Last Man in Post-Apocalyptic Robinsonades
Maren Conrad
Brick Houses with Glass Foundations: The Failure Points of Post-Apocalyptic Nationalism
Casey Ratto
The Textuality of Materiality: Will Self's The Book of Dave
Daniel Schaebler
Styling the Post-Apocalyptic Self: Blankets and Rags, Skin and Bones, and the Fabric of Power
Sarah Heaton
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in Canada after 9/11: A Future Based on Care
Annika Rosanowski
"All at once the birds were everywhere": Hitchcock and the Avian Apocalypse
Victoria Williams
Do Cybrace