Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture - Couverture souple

Mousoutzanis, Aris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138547433 ISBN 13 : 9781138547438

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world's globalised space, the traumatic burden of history, and the mutual relationship between language and eschatological belief, fifteen original essays by a group of internationally established and emerging critics reflect on the apocalypse, its past tradition, pervasive present and future legacy.

The collection seeks to offer a new reading of the apocalypse, understood as a complex - and, frequently, paradoxical - paradigm of (contemporary) Western culture. The majority of published collections on the subject have been published prior to the year 2000 and, in their majority of cases, locate the apocalypse in the future and envision it as something imminent. This collection offers a post-millennial perspective that perceives "the end" as immanent and, simultaneously, rooted in the past tradition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Monica Germanà is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster, UK.

Aris Mousoutzanis is a Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Brighton, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138547433
• ISBN 13: 9781138547438
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Éditeur: Germana Monica
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