Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1683930509 ISBN 13 : 9781683930501

Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Barbara Brodman is professor emerita 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1683930509
• ISBN 13: 9781683930501
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Éditeur: Brodman Barbara, Doan James E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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