Apocalyptic transformation :: apocalypse and the postmodern imagination /

Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers...

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1. Verfasser: Rosen, Elizabeth K., 1967-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung:Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxiv, 205 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
ISBN:9781461632931
1461632935

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